Cassini Captures a Menagerie of Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - August 2, 2011 at 1:28 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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This stunning new Cassini image was captured on July 29, 2011, and shows a portion of Saturn's rings along with several moons dotting the view. How many moons can you find, and can you name them?

See below for a color version of this image, put together by our own Jason Major!

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Jason shares on his

Flickr page

the process of how he edited the image. As Jason says, it's a moon flash mob!

See the

Cassini Solstice Mission raw images page

for a larger view.

Hat tip to Stu Atkinson