Images from Cassini like this destroy me. Look how thin the rings are! And Dione, an icy moon covered in craters, seen gibbous, the plant haunting in the background. The universe is art.
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Dione and Saturn - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/24GS4TU
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Also Saturn -- best planet that isn't Earth.
Question about the caption... It says that Dione is orbiting Saturn at about the same distance as our moon does around us, but as Saturn is so much bigger than Earth, is that distance measured from saturn's "surface" or the center?
Phil, you win best phrase of the week. That's just *chefs kiss*.
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