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Subtle Beauty
Saturn shines in soft shades of gold and blue in this recent image from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting the giant planet for almost two years. Saturn's rings, which Cassini was viewing edge-on, are a bright horizontal stripe across the center of the picture. The small moon Enceladus is a round "bump" just to the right of the centerpoint in the rings. The rings cast dark shadows across the top part of Saturn. [Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI]
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