Saturn's cloudtops, viewed at an angle
Favorite Saturn pictures.
The Cassini spacecraft spacecraft took this oblique view of the cloudtops of Saturn on October 30, 2006.
I saw it first on Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy website. Phil wrote, “It made me think: I’m so used to seeing pictures of planets being ‘face on’ – that is, like you’re looking straight at them – that when I see one taken at an angle like this, it really makes it look like a planet, like a place. It’s not just a light in the sky, or some imagined fantasy land. It’s a world, a physical location, with size, and perspective, and depth. Someday we might go there, live there, play there.”
More favorite Saturn pictures
A gas giant planet, rings and shadows
Saturn backlit, Earth from a billion miles away
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