Titan and Dione

via nasa.gov

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is shown along with Saturn's third-largest moon, Dione, in this photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's rings appear in the background. The side of Titan is the anti-Saturn side which is the side NOT seen from Saturn.

Titan is 3200 miles across and Dione is just under 700 miles across.

The photo was taken May 21, 2011 at a distance of about 1.4 million miles from Titan and 2 million miles from Dione.

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Five of Saturn's moons

via blogs.discovermagazine.com

Five of Saturn's moons. Photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft in July 2011. From left to right are Janus, Pandora (in the rings), Enceladus, Mimas, and Rhea.

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Peek-a-moon

via blogs.discovermagazine.com

Amazing photograph of a moon rising from behind another moon -- in this case, Saturn's moon Rhea rising behind the moon Titan.

Incidentally, there will be a "blue moon" on New Year's Eve. There will not be another New Year's Eve blue moon until 2028.

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