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I'm Mary Poppins, Y'all ☂️⁣ ⁣ Our Cassini spacecraft floats above Saturn, glimpsing the gas giant's golden north hemisphere and its main rings in this natural color view, captured in 2013. The color palate of Saturn's hemispheres change as the planet shifts from season to season, tinting blue during fall and winter and gold during spring and summer.⁣ ⁣ Cassini and its lander probe passenger, Huygens, first entered Saturn's system in 2004 and studied the planet, its rings, and the moons surrounding the gas giant in detail until 2017. EuropeanSpaceAgency's Huygens landed on the moon – Titan – one of the most Earth-like worlds we've discovered.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Saturn appears half-lit in gold, blue, and tan shades. A hexagonal storm appears faintly in tan at the top of the planet's pole. A shadow extends, blocking out the planet's rings, which appear as tenuous lines of white and tan.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Cornell⁣ ⁣ #Saturn #Space #NASA #Cassini #ESA #SolarSystem #Rings

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