Robot Spacecraft Snaps Uranus Through Rings of Saturn

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Robot Spacecraft Snaps Uranus Through Rings of Saturn
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The robotic NASA (http://mashable.com/category/nasa/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) spacecraft Cassini has been touring the solar system for 17 years **w — and it just caught its first glimpse of one of the most remote planets

Cassini has been focused on Saturn, but turned its gaze away long e**ugh to snap this photo of distant Uranus, taken while it was almost on the complete opposite side of the Sun from Uranus. NASA says it was*28.6 astro**mical units away from the ice giant (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-139&rn=news.xml&rst=4132) at the time — or roughly 2.6 billion miles.

See also: NASA's New Spacesuit Design Looks Like Something From 'Tron' (http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/nasa-spacesuit-z-2/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Here's Cassini's first photo of Uranus, the tiny blue dot seen through some of Saturn's rings. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/02/nasa-spacecraft-uranus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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