Cinching the Belt
The shadow of Saturn rings looks like a belt fastened around the planet equator in this image. Overexposure to bring out the ring details makes Saturn appear especially bright.
- Date
- 2010-05-19
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Cinching the Belt" (2010-05-19). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12636Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 84328.
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