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Keywords: rings, Encke gap, Saturn, cassini spacecraft, Moon
![Времена года на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/08/28/0001907114/SeasonSaturnapodacasely1024.preview.jpg)
25.08.2023
Ringed planet Saturn will be at its 2023 opposition, opposite the Sun in Earth's skies, on August 27. While that puts the sixth planet from the Sun at its brightest and well-placed for viewing, its beautiful ring system isn't visible to the unaided eye.
![Сатурн: спутники, кольца, тени, облака](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/04/02/0001404754/SaturnRingsMoons_Cassini_967.preview.jpg)
2.04.2018
While cruising around Saturn, be on the lookout for picturesque juxtapositions of moons, rings, and shadows. One quite picturesque arrangement occurred in 2005 and was captured by the then Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft. In the featured image, moons Tethys and Mimas are visible on either side of Saturn's thin rings, which are seen nearly edge-on.
![Впечатляющее завершение миссии Кассини на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/26/0001375012/GrandFinale_Cassini_960.preview.jpg)
25.01.2017
Cassini is being prepared to dive into Saturn. The robotic spacecraft that has been orbiting and exploring Saturn for over a decade will end its mission in September with a spectacular atmospheric plunge. Pictured here is a diagram of Cassini's remaining orbits, each taking about one week.
![GOES-16: Луна над планетой Земля](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/27/0001375054/ab_moon_from_geo_orbit_med_res_jan_15_2017_1024.preview.jpg)
26.01.2017
Launched last November 19 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the satellite now known as GOES-16 can now observe planet Earth from a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. Its Advanced Baseline Imager captured this contrasting view of Earth and a gibbous Moon on January 15.
![Лунные горы и огненное кольцо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/09/17/0001908657/BeadMountains_Letian_960.preview.jpg)
17.09.2023
What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon's center directly in front of the Sun's center.
![Соединение Марса и Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/04/10/0001826390/mars_saturn_2022_04_04dp1024.preview.jpg)
9.04.2022
Fainter stars in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus are scattered near the plane of the ecliptic in this field of view. The two brightest ones at center aren't stars at all though, but the planets Mars and Saturn.
![Соединение четырех](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/04/0001375398/quadri_conjonction_oudoux1024c.preview.jpg)
4.02.2017
On January 31, a waxing crescent Moon, brilliant Venus, and fainter Mars gathered in the fading twilight, hanging above the western horizon just after sunset on planet Earth. In this combined evening skyscape, the lovely celestial triangle is seen through clouds and haze.
![Окаймленные солнечным светом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/02/03/0001808925/VenusMoonSamePhase1024.preview.jpg)
3.02.2022
Even though Venus (left) was the brightest planet in the sky it was less than 1/30th the apparent size of the Moon on January 29. But as both rose before the Sun they shared a crescent phase.
![Северное лето на Титане](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/06/22/0001384885/PIA21615TitanNorthSummer1024.preview.jpg)
22.06.2017
While yesterday's solstice brought summer to planet Earth's northern hemisphere, a northern summer solstice arrived for ringed planet Saturn nearly a month ago on May 24. Following the Saturnian seasons, its large moon Titan was captured in this Cassini spacecraft image from June 9.
![M22 и Странники](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/04/12/0001406697/mars_saturn_m22_2018_03_31dp1096.preview.jpg)
12.04.2018
Wandering through the constellation Sagittarius, bright planets Mars and Saturn appeared together in early morning skies over the last weeks. They are captured in this 3 degree wide field-of-view from March 31 in a close celestial triangle with large globular star cluster Messier 22.
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