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Rings Occulting Titan
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2006 Titan shines beyond Saturn's rings like a brilliant ring of fire, its light gleaming here and there through the gaps in Saturn's magnificent plane of ice. Giant moon Titan, which is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across - twice the size of Earth's Moon - is surrounded by a thick photochemical haze that scatters the Sun's light. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this image in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on June 11, at a distance of approximately 5.3 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) from Titan and at a Sun-Titan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 158 degrees. Image scale is 32 kilometers (20 miles) per pixel on Titan. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini at JPL Cassini images Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
Cassini Spots Another New Tiny Saturn Moon
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2006This magnified view shows tiny Polydeuces, a moon discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft last month, is a mere 3 kilometers (2 miles) across. Along with much larger Helene (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across), Polydeuces orbits Saturn at the same distance as large, icy Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across). |
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