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Saturn seen from the ground

by

ESO/Novapix

Reference

a-sat01-01000

Date

2006-10-02

The giant planet Saturn, as observed with the VLT NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics instrument on December 8, 2001; the distance was 1209 million km. It is a composite of exposures in two near-infrared wavebands. One of the moons, Tethys, is visible as a small point of light below the planet.