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Mirrors of Darkness...
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Our robotic explorer Cassini regards the shadow-draped face of Saturn.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 14° above the Ring-Plane. In this viewing geometry all of the Main Rings, except for the B-Ring, appear transparent. The Rings cast their mirror image onto the Planet beyond.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 9, 2007, at a distance of approx. 1,6 MKM (about 972.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 90 Km (about 56 miles) per pixel.
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