Your view would likely resemble this subtly shaded image of the gorgeous ringed gas giant. Processed by the Hubble Heritage project , the picture intentionally avoids overemphasizing color contrasts and presents a natural looking Saturn with cloud bands, storms , nearly edge-on rings , and the small round shadow of the moon Enceladus near the center of the planet's disk. Of course, seats were not available on the only ship currently enroute - the Cassini spacecraft, launched in 1997 and scheduled to arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. After an extended cruise to a world 1,400 million kilometers from the Sun , Cassini will tour the Saturnian system , conducting a remote, robotic exploration with software and instruments designed by denizens of planet Earth . Still about 980 million kilometers from Saturn, last Sunday the spacecraft flew by asteroid 2685 Masursky .
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