Imaging recource: NASA offers best look ever at Saturn’s rings, resolving detail as small as 0.3 miles

    Just last week NASA offered us an incredibly high-resolution view of Earth using their new weather satellites. NASA has set their sights further away with the NASA Cassini spacecraft. The spacecraft has captured the highest resolution photos of Saturn's rings to date. Cassini is in its "ring-grazing" orbital phase, allowing it to capture closeup shots of Saturn's rings with double the detail of previous images. The "images resolve details as small as 0.3 miles (550 meters), which is on the scale of Earth's tallest buildings,"...
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