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Old 09-December-2004, 05:19 PM
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SUMMARY: Cassini took this image of Saturn's outer C ring on October 29, 2004 when it was 838,000 km (521,000 miles) away from the planet. It shows the tremendous difference in brightness in the rings, as well as the large scale wavy formations that were discovered by Voyager 24 years ago.

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Old 09-December-2004, 06:42 PM
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Fraser, mah man, you gotta put these Saturn photos together in an official UT Cassini Images Collection! :P B)
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