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.
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.
