space images - Saturn Eclipse

in space •  7 years ago 

On September 2006, NASA’s Cassini orbiter drifted into the shadow of Saturn, & spent 12 hours photographing the planet & it is rings shielded from the sun. 

In total 165 photographs were combined into a mosaic to create this amazing image of Saturn eclipsing our solar system’s central star.


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