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Crescent Enceladus with Saturn’s rings. Taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 4, 2012. View high resolution

Crescent Enceladus with Saturn’s rings. Taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 4, 2012.

Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic View high resolution

Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic

Big Sisters — Saturn’s two largest moons, Rhea and Titan Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark Raw images taken in red, green and blue visible-light channels were combined to make this color version. The spacecraft was 1,828,949 km (1,136,456 miles) from Rhea when the images were taken. Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major. View high resolution

Big Sisters — Saturn’s two largest moons, Rhea and Titan

Via J. Major, Lights in the Dark

Raw images taken in red, green and blue visible-light channels were combined to make this color version. The spacecraft was 1,828,949 km (1,136,456 miles) from Rhea when the images were taken.

Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major.

J. Major, Lights in the Dark color-composite image of Saturn. Full Resolution Here View high resolution

J. Major, Lights in the Dark color-composite image of Saturn. Full Resolution Here

Equinox Revisited. J. Major, Lights In The Dark Saturn taken by Cassini during the planet’s 2009 spring equinox. View high resolution
Equinox Revisited. J. Major, Lights In The Dark

Saturn taken by Cassini during the planet’s 2009 spring equinox.

From J. Major, Lights in the Dark: Saturn’s second-largest moon Rhea passes across the face of the ringed planet in this image, color-combined from three raw images taken by Cassini on May 8, 2010. The rings are seen on edge here, a dark horizontal stripe running underneath the cratered 950-mile-wide moon, their wide shadows cast onto Saturn’s atmosphere below. View high resolution

From J. Major, Lights in the Dark: Saturn’s second-largest moon Rhea passes across the face of the ringed planet in this image, color-combined from three raw images taken by Cassini on May 8, 2010. The rings are seen on edge here, a dark horizontal stripe running underneath the cratered 950-mile-wide moon, their wide shadows cast onto Saturn’s atmosphere below.

Fast Eddy — Lights in the Dark: A huge swirling eddy in Saturn’s northern equatorial bands is visible in this image from Cassini, taken in wavelengths of light sensitive to methane. The planet’s rings are a bright line, illuminated by the sun and casting their shadows onto Saturn’s cloudtops. View high resolution
Fast Eddy — Lights in the Dark:

A huge swirling eddy in Saturn’s northern equatorial bands is visible in this image from Cassini, taken in wavelengths of light sensitive to methane. The planet’s rings are a bright line, illuminated by the sun and casting their shadows onto Saturn’s cloudtops.

A Lights in the Dark homage to Rhea and the Rings by Cassini: “Taken on March 24, this raw image shows Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon, suspended in orbit in front of the twilight side of Saturn, its rings reduced to a thin ribbon of bands at this viewing angle. The width of the rings is hinted at by their shadows falling onto the southern half of the planet…and little Epimetheus passes by in the background between them and Rhea.” High Resolution Image Here View high resolution

A Lights in the Dark homage to Rhea and the Rings by Cassini: “Taken on March 24, this raw image shows Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon, suspended in orbit in front of the twilight side of Saturn, its rings reduced to a thin ribbon of bands at this viewing angle. The width of the rings is hinted at by their shadows falling onto the southern half of the planet…and little Epimetheus passes by in the background between them and Rhea.”
High Resolution Image Here

Gordan Ugarkovic’s image of Moon Enceladus and Saturn’s rings Slices of Light — Via Lights in the Dark View high resolution
Gordan Ugarkovic’s image of Moon Enceladus and Saturn’s rings

Slices of Light — Via Lights in the Dark

A Moondance, As Seen from Saturn “What the world needs now is more pictures from outer space. Or, at least, WE sure do! Today’s fix comes from Astronomy Picture of the Day, which brings this stunning photo taken from the Cassini satellite that’s currently spinning comfortably around Saturn.” Via Telstar Logistics —— Enlarge Photo Here View high resolution
A Moondance, As Seen from Saturn

“What the world needs now is more pictures from outer space. Or, at least, WE sure do!

Today’s fix comes from Astronomy Picture of the Day, which brings this stunning photo taken from the Cassini satellite that’s currently spinning comfortably around Saturn.”

Via Telstar Logistics —— Enlarge Photo Here

Saturn’s moon Rhea reappearing from behind the giant moon Titan Source — NASA View high resolution
Saturn’s moon Rhea reappearing from behind the giant moon Titan

Source — NASA

Big Sisters Rhea and Titan, Saturn’s two largest moons, align in Cassini’s lens in this image taken on November 19, 2009. Lights in the Dark View high resolution

Big Sisters

Rhea and Titan, Saturn’s two largest moons, align in Cassini’s lens in this image taken on November 19, 2009.

Lights in the Dark