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Saturn and satellites seen by Hubble Space Telescope
author: Nasa/ESA/Novapix
reference: a-sat02-00010
Image Size 300 DPI: 24 * 16 cm
Image of Saturn taken with the Hubble Space Telescope on November 17 1995. It reveals the planet's rings tilted nearly edge-on toward the Sun. Because of this special alignment that occurs once every 15 year, the moons cast shadows on the planet and its rings. Dione is on the far left of the image, Mimas is in the middle, and Enceladus is on the right. The "thumbnail" images on the left are frames from the movie that show the moons transiting the planet.
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