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In the Night of Saturn (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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Caption NASA:"Only Cassini could provide this enchanting, Natural Color view of crescent Saturn, which gazes down onto the unlit side of the Planet's spectacular Rings. The robotic ship plies the peaceful black seas around the Ringed Giant, searching for answers to the many questions posed by the inquisitive minds of Earth.
This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 19° above the Ring-Plane. The view of Saturn is through the dark Rings at bottom; the Rings cast shadows onto the Northern Hemisphere at top. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this Natural Color view.
The images were taken with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 4, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (a little more than 1 MMs) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 162°. Image scale is roughly 97 Km (about 61 miles) per pixel".
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