Desktop Project Part 10: The crescent and the plume

[Over the past few weeks, I've collected a metric ton of cool pictures to post, but somehow have never gotten around to actually posting them. Sometimes I was too busy, sometimes too lazy, sometimes they just fell by the wayside... but I decided my computer's desktop was getting cluttered, and I'll never clean it up without some sort of incentive. I've therefore made a pact with myself to post one of the pictures with an abbreviated description every day until they're gone, thus cleaning up my desktop, showing you neat and/or beautiful pictures, and making me feel better about my work habits. Enjoy.] With planetary pictures, angle is everything. If you have your back to the Sun and face your target, it's fully lit, and looks like a disk. But if you go around to the other side, and put your target between you and the Sun, it becomes a ...