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In Saturn’s Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken
by spacecraft. Director Stephen van Vuuren used more than a million photographs and numerous
film techniques to create the effect of flying through space around Saturn and among its rings. CGI
and 3-D modeling were not used in any capacity to create the realistic feel van Vuuren wanted for
the viewer’s experience. Most of the photos were taken by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which
was launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004.

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