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Looking Up to the Giant

Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Looking Up to the Giant
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Uploader comment: Thanks to the illumination angle, Mimas (right) and Dione (left) appear to be staring up at a giant Saturn looming in the background. Although certainly large enough to be noticeable, moons like Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across) and Dione (698 miles or 1123 kilometers across) are tiny compared to Saturn (75,400 miles or 120,700 kilometers across). Even the enormous moon Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across) is dwarfed by the giant planet.


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