APOD 2.1

Today is officially the first submission of the second quarter! This APOD is from October 21st of the astronomy picture of the day website. It is an image of Saturn from an angle that one could never see from earth.

This is a photo from above Saturn taken by the robotic Cassini Spacecraft that is orbiting the ringed planet to this day. That black circle that you see on the left side of the rings is not a problem with the image... no, it is the shadow of the planet on its rings. I really like this picture because I never really think of the rings as a solid or near solid but instead as a gas. This photo is one of few that shows that full expanse of all the rings and is really representative of just how big the rings are in comparison to the planet itself. Just another incredible photo of a distant planet in a place out of our reach.