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Cosmic Vision (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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Caption NASA:"Looking cool and serene, Saturn shares its soft glow with Cassini. This view of Saturn, its Rings and the moon Tethys represents "Target 1" in the fall 2009 edition of the Cassini Scientist for a Day contest.
(See http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/scientistforaday8thedition/.) The contest is designed to give students a taste of life as a scientist by challenging them to write an essay describing the value of one target choice among three for Cassini to image.
A bonus feature in the image is the presence of bright Spokes on and just above the ansa, or curved edge of the darkened Ring-Plane. The Spokes are made visible here by sunlight scattering through the dust-sized icy particles and toward Cassini's cameras.
Images taken using red, blue and green spectral filters were combined to create this color view.
The images were acquired with the Cassini wide-angle camera on Oct. 11, 2009 at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (a little more than 1 MMs) from Saturn".
Nota Lunexit: la dizione "Natural" l'abbiamo aggiunta noi, dato che la NASA - curiosamente - parla solo di "Color View" (insomma, adesso non fanno più nemmeno la fatica di dirci se si tratta di Natural, Approximate True, True e/o False Colors...bah!).
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