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Nasa Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth


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Saturn from Cassini spacecraft

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner ringsand, in the background, our home planet, Earth.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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