If you ’re looking at the picture above and now checking your screenland to see if you have a dead pel , do n’t worry , you do n’t . That ’s just Venus hiding through Saturn ’s ring . Taken by theCassini , Earth ’s twin planet bet like a blind clean mite of dust .
NASA says the delineation was captured approximately 498,000 miles from Saturn at a sun - Saturn - ballistic capsule angle of 178 degrees . Each picture element is roughly about 28 miles . NASA describe the image :
One particular image of Venus and Saturn was get last November when Cassini was localise in the phantasm of Saturn . This allowed Cassini to look in the direction of the sun and Venus , and take a backlit image of Saturn and its rings in a exceptional see geometry called “ eminent solar stage . ” This respect position let on detail about the rings and Saturn ’s atmosphere that can not be go steady in lower solar phase .
[ NASA ]
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