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A truly stunning picture of Saturn Taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006, this gorgeous photo of Saturn portrays a nighttime view of Saturn; as light is reflected and glimmers off of its rings. A NASA astronomer described it as: First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

A truly stunning picture of Saturn

Taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006, this gorgeous photo of Saturn portrays a nighttime view of Saturn; as light is reflected and glimmers off of its rings. A NASA astronomer described it as:

First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn’s rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn’s E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

(Source: io9.com)

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    I think I want Pluto. Though I’ve seen some really lovely tattoos of the whole solar system.
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    That settles it. Fuck getting a tattoo of our solar system as originally planned. I’m getting just Saturn. It’s the best...
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