Cassini Photo of Saturn

clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com October 15, 2007—While en route to study Saturn's two-tone moon Iapetus, the NASA/ESA space probe Cassini spun around last month to take this snapshot of the ringed planet. Orbiting Saturn, Cassini is in the middle of the greatest natural laboratory accessible to us in space," project scientist Dennis Matson with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a press release. "With its rings, dozens of moons, and magnetic environment, Saturn is like a mini solar system."