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- Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's... (2010 Feb 15)
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Re: APOD: Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's... (2010 Feb 1
Please look again, we do see the rings' shadows on the upper half of the iimage. They are consistent with the angle of the terminator on the planet. Saturn is around equnox now but not when Casini made the image in 2005. Casini does not have to wait for equinox to cross the ring plane and get an edg...