Saturn Towers Over Its Moon In Striking NASA Image
- 8 years ago
An image released by NASA shows the ringed gas giant towering over its moon, Tethys, which appears as a small dot in the lower right portion of the frame.
Saturn is a very big planet. The huge, celestial body appears in stunning, stark, black-and-white display in a recent image released by NASA.
Clocking in at 10 times the diameter of Earth, the ringed gas giant deserves all manner of size-trumpeting adjectives.
Especially when compared to its moons, the majority of which it sufficiently dwarfs most of the time.
In that image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the relatively minuscule moon of Tethys is all-but overwhelmed by its home planet, peeking out as a small dot in the lower right of the frame.
Typically, however, the tiny satellite wouldn't be quit
Saturn is a very big planet. The huge, celestial body appears in stunning, stark, black-and-white display in a recent image released by NASA.
Clocking in at 10 times the diameter of Earth, the ringed gas giant deserves all manner of size-trumpeting adjectives.
Especially when compared to its moons, the majority of which it sufficiently dwarfs most of the time.
In that image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the relatively minuscule moon of Tethys is all-but overwhelmed by its home planet, peeking out as a small dot in the lower right of the frame.
Typically, however, the tiny satellite wouldn't be quit