Things that make you go "WOW!"

Sep 23, 2009 03:27

About 3 years ago, the robotic space probe Cassini spent 12 hours in Saturn's shadow and managed to capture this spectacular image of the gas giant eclipsing the Sun:



(click to embiggen the image and see it in its full 162-miles-per-pixel-scaled glory.)

(in the upper left side, just outside the brilliantly lit main rings, you can see the pale blue dot we call home....)

science, photography, cool

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