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Ironically—roughly
and phonetically
speaking, "Cassini's" translates
from
Farsi as "No
one there?"
Cassini
On Wednesday, July 21, 2004, a few days before entering orbit
around Saturn, the Cassini
spacecraft captured this natural color view of Saturn's
rings. The image was taken from
below the ring plane at a distance of 4 million miles.
The
rings are mostly water ice, which is white
if it is pure. The different colors are therefore believed
to reflect other materials, such as rock or carbon compounds. |