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Cassini crosses Saturn's ring plane

Filed under pretty pictures, animation, many worlds, amateur image processing, Saturn, Saturn's moons, Mimas, Enceladus, Saturn's small moons, Cassini

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Cassini crosses Saturn's ring plane This animation is composed of 31 images taken as Cassini crossed Saturn's ring plane on January 17 and 18, 2007.

NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic

In the version below, the moons are identified:

Cassini crosses Saturn's ring plane (annotated)

NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic

Cassini crosses Saturn's ring plane (annotated)

Copyright holder: Gordan Ugarkovic

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about January 18, 2007

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