Have You Seen the Most Recent Saturn Images From Cassini Yet? Because They Are Splendid

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been zooming around taking raw images of Saturn for the past ten years. Though sometimes blurry and usually in black-and-white, these pictures are also some of the closest and most compelling images of the ringed planet that humanity has ever witnessed. Like, geez. Can you even imagine this is a real thing that actually exists in the universe? Because I cannot wrap my brain around it.

(via Phys.org. images via NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

Previously in Cassini images

• Here’s a giant composite mosaic of Saturn
• SAturn may have recently given birth to a new moon
• This image shows Saturn’s “Pac Man” moon, Mimas

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