Group Portrait

Posted on 18 April 2006 by


 


Another nice image of Dione and oblong Janus, moons of Saturn, with the rings nearly edge-on. For most small oblong moons in close orbits, their long axis is locked in, pointing at the large planet.

Little Janus features in a sf novel I’ve heard about, but not yet read.

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Todd lives in the Pacific Northwest, serving a Catholic parish as a lay minister.
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