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Here’s lookin at you kid 🪐⁣ ⁣ Our Cassini spacecraft captured this image from about 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) using red, green, and blue filters to create this natural-color view of Saturn. Cassini not only captured the gas giant but also some world photobombers with Venus, Mars, Earth, and Earth’s Moon visible as small dots of light.⁣ ⁣ Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, will be visible each day at sunset until Feb. 2024, appearing like a bright yellowish “star” on the southeastern horizon.⁣ ⁣ In the first image, Venus appears as a bright white dot in the upper left. Mars is diagonally above Venus and appears as a faint red dot. Earth and the Moon appear in the second image as a pale blue dot and a smaller dot to the lower right. Cassini was not the first to see Saturn up close: Pioneer 11, a spacecraft that helped pave the way for exploring the solar system, first studied Saturn 44 years ago.⁣ ⁣ Image descriptions:⁣ ⁣ Image 1: Half of Saturn appears outlined by bright sunlight that highlights its rings, which unfurl out to the left at various distances from the planet. Small dots in blue, white, and red represent moons and planets.⁣ ⁣ Image 2: Half of Saturn appears outlined by bright sunlight that highlights its rings, which unfurl out to the right at various distances from the planet. Small dots of blue, white, and yellow represent moons and planets.⁣ ⁣ Image 3: A whole view of the same image, with annotations showing the locations of Venus, Mars, the Moon, and Earth.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Saturn #Earth #Moon #Venus #Mars #Casablanca #Cassini #SolarSystem