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The "Ringed Beauty" in natural colors
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Caption NASA originale:"This moody true color portrait of Saturn shows a world that can, at times, seem as serene and peaceful as it is frigid and hostile. Saturn's unlit-side Rings embrace the Planet while their shadows caress the Northern Hemisphere.
The view was obtained from about 15° above the Ring-Plane as Cassini continued its climb to higher orbital inclinations.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The image was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Aug. 18, 2006 at a distance of approximately 1,3 MKM (such as about 800.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 137°.
Image scale is roughly 76 Km (about 47 miles) per pixel".
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