2018.07.16:カッシーニによる土星の最新画像

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カッシーニが2010年1月2日に撮影した土星の画像です。

最新というのは撮影時ではなくNASAがカッシーニの公式サイトに掲載したのが最新ということです。

記事によりますと撮影地点は土星から約140万マイル(230万km)離れた地点です。

オリジナルの画像は以下のサムネイルをクリックすると別ウィンドウで表示(2566×1115)されます。

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

NASAのオリジナル記事

なお表題の”Planet Six”というのは6番目の惑星(水、金、地、火、木、土、...)、つまり土星のことです。

Planet Six

This was Cassini’s view from orbit around Saturn on Jan. 2, 2010. In this image, the rings on the night side of the planet have been brightened significantly to more clearly reveal their features. On the day side, the rings are illuminated both by direct sunlight, and by light reflected off Saturn’s cloud tops.

This natural-color view is a composite of images taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) from Saturn.

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and https://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Last Updated: July 16, 2018
Editor: Tony Greicius

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