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Saturn looms large in new image

source: New Scientist | Apr 02, 04 | submitted by Ryan

London, England - Saturn looms large in the sharpest colour image yet taken of the planet by the approaching Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, due to arrive at the Ringed Planet on 1 July.

The image was taken when the bus-sized Cassini probe was over 56 million kilometres away from Saturn - a third of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is a composite of several exposures taken on 8 March and was released on Friday.

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