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The Ring-World in natural colors
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Caption NASA:"Our robotic emissary, flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored Ring-World. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit Rings alone, seen from an elevation of 60°, the highest Cassini has yet attained.
The view is a mosaic of 27 images -- nine separate sets of red, green and blue images -- taken over the course of about 45', as Cassini scanned across the entire main Ring System. The Planet's shadow carves a dark swath across the Ring-Plane at the right.
Moons visible in this image: Epimetheus, at the 1 o'clock position; Pandora, at the 5 o'clock position and Janus, at the 10 o'clock position.
Bright clumps of material in the narrow F-Ring moved in their orbits between each of the color exposures, creating a chromatic misalignment that provides some sense of the continuous motion in the Ring System.
Radially extending lens flare artifacts, which result from light being scattered within the camera optics, are present in the view.
The images in this natural-color view were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 21, 2007, at a distance of approx. 1,6 MKM (1 MMs) from Saturn. Image scale is 90 roughly Km (about 56 miles) per pixel".
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