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Saturn appears pale beige and yellow with its rings encircling it. Three small white dots appear off the left of the planet. These are three of Saturn's moons.

Saturn From Voyager 2

Voyager 2 was the third NASA spacecraft to study Saturn up close. This picture of Saturn was created using Voyager 2 images taken on Aug. 4, 1981, from a distance of 13 million miles (21 million kilometers). Three of Saturn's icy moons are easily seen at the left of Saturn. They are, in order of distance from the planet: Tethys, Dione, and Rhea. The shadow of Tethys appears on Saturn's southern hemisphere.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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