The imaging wizards working on the Cassini mission have delivered a Christmas gift to space fans in the shape of this astonishing new view of planet Saturn.
It looks unusual because the giant world and its spectacular rings were backlit with the Sun behind them while the Nasa probe was in Saturn's shadow.
That is a line-up that happens rarely for the orbiter, which has been studying the planet and its retinue of moons since 2004. The last time it delivered such a view was in September 2006 with a picture that was named In Saturn's Shadow.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-12/21/saturn-images
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