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Description: Saturn eclipsing the sun, seen from behind from the Cassini orbiter. The image is a composite assembled from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 15 September, 2006. Individual rings seen include (in order, starting from most distant) * E ring * Pallene ring (visible very faintly in an arc just below Saturn) * G ring * Janus/Epimetheus ring (faint) * F ring (narrow brightest feature) * Main rings (A,B,C) * D ring (bluish, nearest Saturn)
Title: Saturn eclipse crop
Credit: Saturn_eclipse.jpg
Author: Saturn_eclipse.jpg: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute derivative work: The High Fin Sperm Whale
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