In a rare event earlier this month, the Moon occulted Saturn, meaning that from Earth's perspective, Saturn traveled through the sky behind the Moon. [Read More]
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy recently traveled to the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii so he could capture a rare image of Saturn being occulted by the Moon. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-09-25 15:58
NASA has just released new raw photos of Saturn’s tiny moon Pan, captured on March 7th, 2017, by the Cassini space probe from about 15,000 miles away (~24,500km). The photos reveal a bizarre-looking moon — one that looks like a giant ravioli floating in space (or a dumpling or walnut or “paper mache mini-planet“). These […] petapixel.com »
2017-03-10 20:03