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What Does Saturn Look Like From an Asteroid?
The spacecraft Rosetta is on its way to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. But along the way, they decided to fly it by asteroid Lutetia. On July 10th, Rosetta got to within 3200 km of Lutetia, and the ESA streamed the approach live online.
Now, they have released the photos and they are AWESOME!
This one is my favourite. They managed to catch Saturn in the background when Rosetta was about 36000 km away.
Asteroid Lutetia with Saturn in the background
You can check out all the photos from the flyby on the ESA’s website.
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