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mturmon
on April 28, 2017
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NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
It's probably a cosmic ray, which overloads the CCD detector in a streak-like pattern as it flies through the focal plane. All uncorrected deep space imagery has them.
cyberpunk
on April 28, 2017
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Aha; thanks! I'm pretty sure I like the effect even more because of your explanation though!
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