Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Smokey Ice

The Cassini spacecraft peers through the fine, smoke-sized ice particles of Saturn's F ring toward the cratered face of Mimas. The F ring's core, which contains significantly larger particles, is dense enough to completely block the light from Mimas.

Mimas through the F Ring

Look at the Cassini site for details.

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At 9:24 AM, January 03, 2008 Anonymous Anonymous had this to say...

Another amazing photo.

 

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