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Saturn Rings, Northern Latitudes

Photo: Saturn's northern rings
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern latitudes. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have rings, but Saturn's are by far the largest and most spectacular.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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