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NASA Releases New Photos of Saturn's Rings and Clouds

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 31, 2012 @05:55AM from the take-a-look dept.

skade88 writes "Launched in 1997, Cassini has taken over 300,000 pictures of Saturn since it started orbiting the planet and the mission is due to run through 2017. NASA has released some new photos including: Saturn's rings, clouds, Saturn's moon Janus, and the shadow of another one of Saturn's moons Mimas."

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Re:Black-and-white? by wonkey_monkey · 2012-12-31 06:19 · Score: 3, Funny

It does, but they cost more to develop. Times are tight.

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Is it just me... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 06:26 · Score: 0, Funny

Or did anyone else read that as "nude" photos?