In orbit around the Moon for 12 years, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft managed to photograph Saturn, one of the giants of the solar system. The purpose of the spacecraft, which is 20 and 165 km from the Moon’s surface, is to document the ground of our natural satellite.
According to a statement from the American agency, the image was taken when the spacecraft was at an altitude of 90 km over a location known as “Lacus Veris” (Spring Lake), using a camera called the Narrow Angle Camera (Narrow Angle Camera).
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NASA engineers had to make a move known as “sweeping space” to get a photograph of Saturn. They pointed the camera to one side of the planet and targeted the opposite side.
As Saturn is dimmer than our Moon or Jupiter, none of its moons appear in the image. However, it is possible to see the main rings, which are between 10 and 100 million years old, 10 meters thick and composed almost entirely of ice.
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