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The Northern Hemisphere of Saturn (natural colors; credits: NASA/Space Science Inst.)
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Caption NASA:"Dark ring shadows adorn the Northern Hemisphere of Saturn.
The shadows have loosened their grip on the North compared to when Cassini arrived in 2004, and presently continue to slide farther South.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5° above the Ring-Plane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this Natural Color View. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 22, 2007, at a distance of approx. 1,3 MKM (such as about 839.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 77 Km (about 48 miles) per pixel".
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