Saturn gets a new look in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft
studying the ringed planet
Saturn gets a new look in this new
image taken by the Cassini
spacecraft studying the ringed planet.
The vivid
orange and yellow hues of Saturn’s atmosphere, and the blue tinge of its rings
at far right, highlight this composite of several images taken by Cassini’s
wide-angle camera. To build this view, researchers used special camera filters
that are sensitive only to certain types of infrared light.
Although NASA released this image today, Cassini’s
camera actually recorded it on Dec. 13, 2006 from a distance of about 511,000
miles (822,000 kilometers) from Saturn.
-- SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science
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