Of course, this photograph was taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as part of its ongoing work at Saturn. It took the image on April 29, 2007 when it was approximately 1.8 million km (1.1 million miles) from Atlas.
Original Source: NASA/JPL/SSI News Release
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