Dec 29, 2006

Dark side of Saturn

I was skipping through the most popular links on Del.icio.us the other day and came across The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006. It's completely worth checking them all out and reading the accompanying text.

At the risk of spoiling the money shot for everyone, this is the one that got me all worked up:

It was taken by the Cassini probe after it passed Saturn. The sun is directly behind the planet and you can see a little bit of it peaking out in the lower left curve. If you actually go to the site it shows a blow up of a piece of the photo where you can actually see a small white dot that is Earth.

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