NASA'S Cassini spacecraft captures Saturnian moon ballet

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Many denizens of the Saturn system wear a uniformly gray mantle of darkened ice but not so for these two most fascinating of moons. The brightest body in the Solar System Enceladus is contrasted here against Titans smoggy golden murk. Credit: NASAJPL ...
Many denizens of the Saturn system wear a uniformly gray mantle of darkened ice, but not so for these two most fascinating of moons. The brightest body in the Solar System, Enceladus, is contrasted here against Titan's smoggy golden murk. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Released: June 21, 2006 (PIA 07787)

The cold, icy orbs of the Saturn system come to life in a slew of new movie clips showing the ringed planet's moons in motion.


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