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breathtaking saturn
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'cassini continues its extended tour of saturn with rev122, the spacecraft's 123rd orbit around the ringed planet. cassini begins rev122 on november 30 at its farthest distance from saturn, called apoapse. at this point, cassini is 2.5 million kilometers (1.55 million miles) from saturn's cloud tops. during rev122, cassini orbits in the ring and orbital plane of saturn's main satellites, providing an opportunity for cassini to encounter some of saturn's moons as well as observe mutual events between the various satellites.'
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