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Spring on Saturn

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With all the fuss about Phoenix Mars, the Cassini-Huygens mission, still twirling around Saturn four years on, seems to get forgotten - but I still find the pictures of Saturn's rings it's sending back mind-blowing. It's like they got to the moon and found there really was a big smiley face on it.

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Saturn's seasons last seven years, and now it's going into spring, so the colours of the north and the south are gradually changing.

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