12.1.10

Dwarves and Giants


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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

This rather elegant Cassini image lends something of a sense of scale to Saturn as we see it dwarfing 1500km wide Rhea.
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3 comments:

  1. Zhoen13/1/10 17:22

    How big is big? How small is small?

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  2. Geosomin14/1/10 15:16

    I think the belt is rather slimming...

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  3. Pacian14/1/10 22:17

    @Zhoen: If it's rounded out by its own gravity: big. Otherwise: small.

    @Geo: I'm sure Saturn is very flattered.

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