‘The Harvard professor has spooked the right. As she begins her high-profile Senate campaign against GOP star Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the consumer advocate tells Samuel P. Jacobs how she created much of the intellectual foundation for the Occupy Wall Street movement.’ (via The Daily Beast).

“That stunning shot is from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. The big moon is Titan, and by big, I mean bigger than the planet Mercury. Big enough to have a thick nitrogen atmosphere, clearly visible in this picture. The bright moon superposed right on top of Titan is Dione, its icy surface shiny and white.

On the right, just outside the rings, is tiny, flying saucer-shaped Pandora. And the fourth moon? That’s Pan, the tiny white spot in the gap in the rings on the left, barely visible in this shot. But that’s understandable, since Pan is less than 30 km (18 miles) across, and this was taken from a distance of nearly 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) away!

I love pictures like this; they remind me that even after 7 years of Cassini touring around Saturn, there’s still much to see and much beauty to behold there.” (via Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine).

Related:

• New Map of Saturn Moon Titan Reveals Surprisingly Earth-Like Features (livescience.com)
• Say Hello to Saturn’s Moons (neatorama.com)
• Saturn’s Odd Pockmarked Moon Revealed in New Photos (foxnews.com)
• Saturnian moons merge into a quintet (photoblog.msnbc.msn.com)