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Here’s lookin at you kid 🪐⁣ ⁣ Our Cassini spacecraft captured this image from about 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) using red, green, and blue filters to create this natural-color view of Saturn. Cassini not only captured the gas giant but also some world photobombers with Venus, Mars, Earth, and Earth’s Moon visible as small dots of light.⁣ ⁣ Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, will be visible each day at sunset until Feb. 2024, appearing like a bright yellowish “star” on the southeastern horizon.⁣ ⁣ In the first image, Venus appears as a bright white dot in the upper left. Mars is diagonally above Venus and appears as a faint red dot. Earth and the Moon appear in the second image as a pale blue dot and a smaller dot to the lower right. Cassini was not the first to see Saturn up close: Pioneer 11, a spacecraft that helped pave the way for exploring the solar system, first studied Saturn 44 years ago.⁣ ⁣ Image descriptions:⁣ ⁣ Image 1: Half of Saturn appears outlined by brig...

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