Is the Photograph of Saturn’s Moon Dione Real?
Rating:
- The photo is REAL. The Cassini Spacecraft, which observed Saturn and its moons, recorded it on October 11, 2005.
- The photo is in NASA’s image archive.
The Twitter account @uzayakesif, which we often encounter on social media, published a photo. We have previously confirmed that many of the photos he shared are not real. The photo we took to review today is also among the things shared by this account…
The tweet tells us this close-range photo of Saturn’s icy moon Dione was taken by the Cassini Spacecraft. When it comes to space photos, one should not trust the internet. Because, as you can imagine, it is possible to produce such photographs with digital programs. So be skeptical. Some Twitter users also commented that this ‘photo cannot be real’.
As you can see, they are confused… We held a magnifying glass in this photo.
The photo was taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005
First of all, we search for this photo on Google Images using the reverse image search method. The NASA website appears. We see the ‘reverse version’ of the exact same photo shared in the tweet.
NASA’s website includes the following information about this photo:
Images taken with blue, green, and infrared (752 nanometer-centered) spectral filters on October 11, 2005 were used to create this color image that approximates the scene as it would appear to the human eye. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft’s wide-angle camera at a distance of about 39,000 kilometers (24,200 miles) from Dione and in a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or 22 degree phase. The image scale is approximately 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
In the statement, we see that this photo was taken by the Cassini Spacecraft on October 11, 2005. therefore the photo is real and is in NASA’s archive.