Saturn quadruple transit
Filed under pretty pictures, global views, many worlds, amateur image processing, Saturn, Saturn's moons, Saturn's rings, Mimas, Enceladus, Dione, Titan, Hubble Space Telescope
NASA / STScI / Gordan Ugarkovic
The photo was taken just a few months before equinox, and the rings cast nearly no shadow onto the planet. Saturn's oblate shape is obvious in this very nearly full-phase view.
Copyright holder: Gordan Ugarkovic

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Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about February 24, 2009










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