The Moon as Seen from Cassini
![close view of the Moon's rugged surface](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cassini_moon.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
This narrow angle image taken NASA's Cassini's camera system of the Moon is one of the best of a sequence of narrow angle frames taken as the spacecraft passed by the Moon on the way to its closest approach with Earth on August 17, 1999.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
October 4, 2017
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This image was taken on Aug. 17, 1999 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it passed by the Moon during an Earth flyby while Cassini was en route to Saturn.