Category Archives: Space

Oct
11
2009

Cassini Mission to Saturn

Many new wonders on the Cassini Website starting with this new portrait of Saturn at Equinox. Notice that the ring shadow cast on the planet has diminished to a fine line. The tangential lighting brings out shadows of various moons and ring features. There are also amazing new movies of aurora and the hexagon at [...]

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Nov
15
2008

Incredible Saturn Aurora Photo

This is an incredible Cassini photo showing two amazing phenomena. The blue areas are Saturn’s northern lights (aurora borealis, just like on Earth!). Underneath the blue there is a dark hexagon 15,000 miles in diameter. This is Saturn’s polar vortex (again, just like Earth, but six-sided instead of round.

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