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The "60-frame silent movie" is a link that brings up that movie in YouTube. For interest I have been trying to capture some frames from the movie and keeping a copy of them, but I have a problem. Quite soon in the movie an advert comes up. I can remove that by clicking on its 'x' but that then results in a small white arrow which I cannot remove and it then looks like an artefact on Saturn as the movie proceeds. I have an ad blocker but it clearly does not work well enough here so I wonder if anyone can inform me how (if it is readily possible) to remove the advert and also the white arrow? I am however surprised that JPL would allow the movie to be published with an advert. :o

PS. The Quick Time movie that can be brought up through the "above image" link does not have the advert but it does not have a time bar that I find useful.

Edit added a little while after posting. I don't know what I did but I can now see the movie without the advert! :saturn:

In the information brought up through the "above image" link the image is titled 'Rhea Transits Saturn' and it also states "Note: this release was formerly entitled "Rhea Occults Saturn." "

Lovely!

I thought there were other images in the film which better showed the "crescent" of Rhea. Still, the sequence is one I could have only dreamed of seeing the first time I saw Saturn as a young man.

Each to their taste. but I prefer one of the first or last frames, when Rhea's globe is invisible and only its crescent shows, either against Space or Saturn's dark side.

John

You can see the division of the rings on Saturn...

Such a cool image.

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Magnificent. The "silent movie" is well worth a look too. Though I might have called it a transit rather than an occultation, at least from Cassini's vantage point.

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