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Saturn's Rings Edge-On


Depicts: Saturn, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Mimas
Copyright: Phil Nicholson (Cornell University) and NASA

Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on -- for the second time this year -- in this Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995, when the planet was 895 million miles (1,440 million kilometers) away.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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