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Double feature from Saturn
Radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft provides the data for a virtual flight over Saturn's moon Titan, while Cassini's camera catches the shadow of another moon passing over Saturn's rings. Msnbc.com's Alan Boyle reports.
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Saturn storm
This Dec. 24 picture from the Cassini orbiter shows a huge storm on Saturn as a bright-colored whirl on the planet's disk. The uncalibrated raw image, released today, also shows the dark shadows of Saturn's rings on the disk.
Saturn at equinox
The shadows of Saturn's rings, cast onto the planet itself, appear as a thin band at the equator in an image taken by the Cassini spacecraft as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox.
