Pluto & Charon on July 7, 2015

Pluto & Charon on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC

Pluto & Charon on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC (Range: 7.8M km)

Pluto on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC

Pluto on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC (Range: 7.8M km)

Charon on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC

Charon on July 7, 2015 at 22:46:05 UTC (Range: 7.8M km)

Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Cassini’s view of Titan, Rhea, and Mimas on March 25, 2015

Crescent moon extravaganza

Three Crescent Moons
This is a composite image created from three separate images that Cassini captured of Saturn’s moons Titan, Rhea, and tiny Mimas on March 25, 2015 at around 20:10 UTC. All three moons were within the NAC field-of-view. Mimas is the small moon that is barely visible in the image (see annotated image below).

Annotated image
Three crescent moons

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/@ObservingSpace

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