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The Great Divide
Posted on Monday, April 11, 2016
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Waspie_Dwarf

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Uploader comment: It's difficult to get a sense of scale when viewing Saturn's rings, but the Cassini Division (seen here between the bright B ring and dimmer A ring) is almost as wide as the planet Mercury. The 2,980-mile-wide (4,800-kilometer-wide) division in Saturn's rings is thought to be caused by the moon Mimas.
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