True-colour Voyager 2 photograph of Saturn taken on August 4, 1981, from a distance of 21 million kilometres (13 million miles). Three of Saturn's icy

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True-colour Voyager 2 photograph of Saturn taken on August 4, 1981, from a distance of 21 million kilometres (13 million miles). Three of Saturn's icy satellites (white at centre and bottom left) are visible; closest to the planet surface is Tethys, followed by Dione, with Rhea furthest out. The dark brown spot on Saturn's southern hemisphere is the shadow of Tethys.

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Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: astronomy, cosmology, dione, moon, moons, planet, planetary, rhea, saturn, science, tethys