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Northern Latitudes (Natural Colors; credits: NASA)
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Caption NASA:"Saturn dominates this colorful view, taken from a vantage point high above the Rings. From here the Cassini Spacecraft can see the Rings' far side, where the dark shadow of Saturn abruptly terminates their visibility.
Mimas (about 397 Km, or approx. 247 miles across) casts its shadow onto the Planet's Northern Latitudes (just below center).
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 27° above the Ring-Plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 26, 2008 at a distance of approx. 1,6 MKM (such as about 1 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 93 Km (about 58 miles) per pixel".
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