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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2790047" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i.kinja_img.com_gawker_media_image_upload_s__3Bp6kfga___c_scal4f930ac9ddf363b5fa53b418caae70a6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'ElizabethSerif'">Saturns satellite Dione is less than half the size of our moon, and it orbits a planet which features a radius nine times that of Earth. Its a stark contrast in size thats beautifully conveyed in a picture recently captured by the Cassini space probe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'ElizabethSerif'">This gorgeous image was taken by Cassini at a distance of 618,000 miles (994,000 kilometers) from Saturn on May 27, 2015.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'ElizabethSerif'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'ElizabethSerif'">Saturn appears hazy compared to Dione owing to the image being acquired via a wavelength absorbed by methane. Dione, unlike Saturn, does not experience methane absorption, so the light simply bounces off its icy surface.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2790047, member: 3371"] [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i.kinja_img.com_gawker_media_image_upload_s__3Bp6kfga___c_scal4f930ac9ddf363b5fa53b418caae70a6.jpg[/IMG] [FONT=ElizabethSerif]Saturns satellite Dione is less than half the size of our moon, and it orbits a planet which features a radius nine times that of Earth. Its a stark contrast in size thats beautifully conveyed in a picture recently captured by the Cassini space probe.[/FONT] [FONT=ElizabethSerif]This gorgeous image was taken by Cassini at a distance of 618,000 miles (994,000 kilometers) from Saturn on May 27, 2015. Saturn appears hazy compared to Dione owing to the image being acquired via a wavelength absorbed by methane. Dione, unlike Saturn, does not experience methane absorption, so the light simply bounces off its icy surface.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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