Robot Spacecraft Snaps Uranus Through Rings of Saturn
 

Robot Spacecraft Snaps Uranus Through Rings of Saturn
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The robotic NASA 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 at the time — or roughly 2.6 billion miles.

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Here's Cassini's first photo of Uranus, the tiny blue dot seen through some of Saturn's rings. Read more...

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