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Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble

This Hubble animation shows four of Saturn's moons as they circled their parent planet on 24 February 2009 (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser and L. L. Christensen)

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— 19 March 2009 14:12 GMT | Astronomy

On 24 February 2009 the Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn's disk, are the bright moon Dione and the fainter moon Enceladus…