NASA Spacecraft Photographs Venus as Seen from Saturn

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Venus gleams over Saturn's enormous shoulder in two stunning new photos captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting the ringed planet.

Earth's hellishly hot "sister planet" peeks through Saturn's iconic rings in one image, which Cassini took last November when it was in Saturn's shadow. Because of the vast gulf between the two worlds, the Earth-size Venus appears as a bright white dot, just above and to the right of the picture's center.

When it took the photo, Cassini was about 498,000 miles (802,000 kilometers) from Saturn and roughly 880 million miles (1.42 billion km) from Venus, researchers said. The probe was looking toward the unlit side of the rings from slightly below the ring plane. Each pixel in the image covers about 28 miles (44 km).

http://www.space.com/20053-venus-photo-from-saturn-cassini.html

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