Long Day Journey into Night
NASA Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn shadow cutting sharply across its rings as the orbits of ring particles carry them suddenly from day to night. With no atmosphere to scatter light, shadows in space are much darker than were used to here on Earth.
- Date
- 2013-05-06
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Long Day Journey into Night" (2013-05-06). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14659Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15558.
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