Smudge of a Shadow
The shadow of the moon Mimas creates a smudge on the southern hemisphere of Saturn in this view from NASA Cassini spacecraft. Mimas does not appear here, but it does cast its shadow on the planet in the lower left of the image.
- Date
- 2012-04-09
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Smudge of a Shadow" (2012-04-09). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14603Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 84499.
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