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This strongly enhanced false color view of Saturn is a
departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color
Cassini spacecraft images, but the contrast between regions north and south of
the ring shadows is more apparent here.
The northern region is marked by many bright, patchy clouds.
The region south of the ring shadows contains the bright equatorial band seen
in many monochrome Cassini views taken at infrared wavelengths.
This view makes Saturn's
rings faintly visible at lower left. The false color enhancement brings out
additional detail in the planet's
clouds that is not visible in the natural color view.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings
from about 52 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle
camera using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of
infrared light centered at 728 (red channel), 752 (blue channel) and 890 (green
channel) nanometers. The view was acquired on April 5, 2007 at a distance of
approximately 1.5 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Saturn.
--NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute and SPACE.com
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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science
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