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Hyperion - false colors
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Original caption:"This stunning false-color view of Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.
Hyperion has a notably reddish tint when viewed in natural color. The red color was toned down in this false-color view and the other hues were enhanced, in order to make more subtle color variations across Hyperion's surface more apparent.
Images taken using infrared, green and ultraviolet spectral filters were combined to create this view. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approx. 62.000 Km (about 38.500 miles) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft angle of 52°.
The image scale is 362 mt (about 1200 feet) per pixel".
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(Dettagli)
