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2025 November 16 - Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane

2025 November 16 - Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane

Update: 2025-11-16
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In today's image, we see an image from the Cassini spacecraft taken back in 2005 when it crossed the ring plane of Saturn, which causes the thin rings to essentially disappear from sight.


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2025 November 16 - Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane

2025 November 16 - Crossing Saturn's Ring Plane

Robert M Wagner