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The Blue Pole of Saturn (natural colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute and Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's North Pole is littered with storms, as we see in this color view of it. A bit of the North Polar Hexagon is also visible at the upper-right. Cassini scientists are looking forward to sunrise on this Pole next year so that they can better study it in Visible Light.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this full color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 16, 2008 at a distance of approx. 673.000 Km (such as about 418.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 71°.
Image scale is roughly 37 Km (about 23 miles) per pixel".
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