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Saturn and satellites seen by Cassini spacecraft

author: Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-00010

Image Size 300 DPI: 8 * 8 cm

This image was composed of exposures taken by Cassini's narrow angle camera on November 9, 2003 at 08:54 UTC (spacecraft event time) from a distance of 111.4 million km (69.2 million mi) -- about three-fourths the distance of the Earth from the Sun -- and 235 days from insertion into Saturn orbit. Five Saturnian satellites can be seen in this image. The brightnesses of these bodies have been increased three- to ten-fold to enhance visibility. The satellites are, on the left, from brightest to faintest, Rhea (1530 km, 951 mi across), Dione (1120 km, 696 mi), and Enceladus (520 km, 323 mi); and on the right, from brightest to faintest, Tethys (1060 km, 659 mi) and Mimas (392 km, 244 mi).

Keywords for this photo:

2003 - ASTRONOMY - CASSINI - DIONE - ENCELADUS - GLOBAL VIEW - MIMAS - PLANET - RHEA - RING - SATELLITE - SATURN - SATURN'S MOON - TETHYS -