July 29, 2013

Watch This Mind-Blowing Montage of Saturn

NASA’s Cassini orbiter has spent 8 years taking pictures of Saturn’s rings and moons, resulting in 200,000 pictures, and this wonderful video montage below.

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NASA’s Cassini orbiter has spent 8 years taking pictures of Saturn’s rings and moons, resulting in 200,000 pictures, and this wonderful video montage below. The waltz is by the Russian composerDmitri Shostakovich.

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