In all the solar system, there is no sight like Saturn. Its stunning system of rings casts bands of shadows across the planet’s cloudy face, while the rings themselves vanish into Saturn’s night side. The ring system is wider than 20 Earths placed side-by-side but only as thick as a football field is long.

—one of three Saturn storyboards from the Voyage Scale Model Solar System Exhibition, ©2001

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Credit: A computer-generated image created for the Voyage Exhibition from Voyager 1 and 2 missions data. ARC Science Simulations, © 2000