Saturno eclipsa a Cassini (Cortesía de NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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2007-10-17. Al ver esta imagen, que es original y NO está tratada con ordenador, he pensado que te gustaría ponerla en alguna página de la web... Es Saturno visto desde atrás por Cassini (una especie de eclipse solar por Saturno!)

Saludos, Jesús

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"With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world."

De Astronomy Picture of the Day el 2006-10-16:

...Lejos en la distancia, visible en la imagen a la izquierda, justo por encima de los anillos principales más brillantes, está el casi ignorado "pálido punto azul" de la Tierra.

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Explanation: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn and slightly scattering sunlight, in the above exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the above image. Visible in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus, and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

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