Backlit Saturn

[Rajan Parrikar]

http://news.yahoo.com/backlit-saturn-shines-stunning-photo-201934552.html

[bill t.]

Thanks for that Rajan!

Here's the full sized, 21MP shot from NASA's gallery...

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/714625main_PIA14934_full_full.jpg

Will add it to the long list of cool space shots I would like to put up somewhere but don't have room for.

Space photography has certainly come a long way since this 1965 Mariner shot, the first closeup image of Mars and probably the first digital image I ever saw.  Was hoping for Grecian-esque ruins, but got craters instead.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/mariner4_8e.gif

[Paulo Bizarro]

This is amazing, thanks for the link.

[Walt Roycraft]

Very cool!