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    SATURN
    Jewel of Our Solar System
932,015,327 MI
DISTANCE FROM SUN
83.387340 mins
ONE WAY LIGHT TIME TO THE SUN
10,759 Earth Days
LENGTH OF YEAR
Gas Giant
PLANET TYPE
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FIVE MOONS AND SATURN

On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera.

VIEWS OF TITAN FROM DIFFERENT ALTITUDES

This poster shows a set of images acquired by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descent imager/spectral radiometer, in the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), at five different altitudes above Titan's surface.

CANDLE IN THE DARK

Saturn's rings cut across an eerie scene that is ruled by Titan's luminous crescent and globe-encircling haze, broken by the small moon Enceladus, whose icy jets are dimly visible at its south pole. North is up.