Mimicking the Moon (PIA18291)
03 November, 2014
This image from the Cassini orbiter shows Saturn and it’s moon Titan, both in a crescent phase. This image has a scientific purpose, as well as being astronomically hot - scientists can tell all kinds of exciting things about atmospheric conditions by looking at how the light acts.
… As if you would expect anything different from people who can build a robot and then fire it a quarter of the way across the solar system for a happy snap.
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