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Glossy metal print

Saturn

NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

  • Glossy metal print
  • 12 × 12 in
  • Floats ½ in off the wall
  • Printed in the US. Ships in the US.
See it on the atlas
The photograph

Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem, 6 October 2004. A natural-color mosaic of 126 frames from about 6.3 million kilometers out. The planet’s shadow falls across the rings. Still one of Cassini’s classic full-disk portraits.

The mission

Cassini–Huygens · Imaging Science Subsystem

Cassini was the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn. The joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission spent 13 years on the planet, its rings, and its moons, and dropped the Huygens probe onto Titan. The questions were origin and structure: what the rings are made of, whether Titan has a weather cycle, how the magnetosphere works. This mosaic is an early tour portrait — a map of the whole system, ring geometry, and the shadow that only an orbiter could stand still long enough to see.

The metal

Dye-infused into aluminum. No paper, no glass, no frame. A hidden float mount sits the panel ½ in off the wall.

Shipping

Printed to order. Packed rigid, ships in 5–8 days. Free freight over $250.