What could you see approaching Saturn aboard a interplanetary cruise ship?Your view would likely resembl thissubtly shaded image of the gorgeous ringed gas giant.Processed by the HubbleHeritage project, the picture intentionallyavoids overemphasizing color contrasts and presents natural looking Saturnwith cloud bands, storms, nearl edge-on rings, and the small round shadowof the moon Enceladus near the center of the planet's disk.Of course, seats were not available on the only ship currently en route, th Cassinispacecraft.Cassini flew byJupiter at the turn of the millennium and i scheduledto arrive at Saturn in the year 2004.After an extended cruise to a world 1,400 million kilometer from the Sun, Cassini will tour th Saturniansystem, conducting a remote, robotic explorationwith software and instrument designed by denizens of planet Earth.
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