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Full moons over Saturn
Prominent in the center of this image of Titan, taken Dec. 10 on Cassini's return trip, is Xanadu, a broad bright area. There is also a bright 345-mile semi-circle to the lower right on Xanadu, as well as a 205 mile multi-ringed feature to the upper right.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- bring us your paper moon
- by Razzl January 18, 2005 1:56 PM PST
- The magnificent achievement of bringing us images of this fascinating world by way of tiny cameras with tiny power sources has been somewhat tarnished by the pokey pace of releasing them. The fascinating film sequences available at the ESA web site should have ditigized, cleaned up, blown up, and distributed by now. ESA is failing to grasp that the achievement of 7 years is slipping from public interest hour by hour. Images are a powerful tool and really more important for the future of the space endeavor than any other data they may be working on...
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