NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft — in service since 1997 and in orbit around the ringed giant since 2004 — took pictures of Saturn and its rings during a solar eclipse on July 19. It acquired a panoramic mosaic of the Saturn system that allows scientists to see details in the rings and throughout the system as they are backlit by the sun. This mosaic marks the third time Earth has been imaged from the outer solar system. It is the second time it has been imaged by Cassini from Saturn's orbit.
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3 comments:
Another amazing picture from one of the hardest working spaceships out there. I use apod.nasa.gov as my homepage. Great space pictures every day. Go comet ISON!
Cassini is a tough little ship. That is the one that the Enterprise will find 300 years from now.
Neah, they will do to it what they did to Galileo, drop it into the planets abyss!
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