|
|
Crescent Saturn
|
Caption NASA:"Cassini coasts beneath giant Saturn, staring upward at its gleaming crescent and icy rings.
A great bull's-eye pattern is centered on the South Pole, where a vast, hurricane-like storm spins.
This view looks toward the lit side of the Rings from about 26° below the Ring-Plane. The view was acquired about 2 hours prior to "The Lore of Saturn".
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural-color view.
The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2007, from a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (about 700.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 61 Km (about 38 miles) per pixel".
|
|