This photograph of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft in December. The rings are completely horizontal, and appear as a razor-thin line in the middle. The shadows of those rings are evident on the planet. And that tiny little ball underneath the plane of the rings? That’s Tethys, a moon of Saturn that is over a thousand kilometers wide. Yes, Saturn is immense, but it takes good pictures. Link
smarts
Without knowing the distance between Saturn and that moon, this comparison is absolutely meaningless.
smarts
No actually the photo was quite cool regardless. Mmyea. I missed the point.
Will I Am
That moon is only a little bit smaller than Earth’s moon. Considering that our moon is about 1/4th the size of Earth in diameter, you can more or less imagine a planet next to the moon in this photo, but 5x larger, and you’ve got our Earth against the backdrop of Saturn. Pretty damn impressive!
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