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The Northern Hemisphere of Saturn (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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Caption NASA:"A chef's bounty of colors is represented in this full color view of Saturn's Northern Hemisphere.
Butternut, peach, and olive hues have replaced the azure blue of Winter. The blue of Saturn's Winter Hemisphere during the early Cassini Prime Mission still remains a puzzle. Over the course of time, the blue color has faded and has been replaced with bands of other hues (see also PIA11141).
This picture is a combination of images taken in red, green and blue light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 1, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (such as about 680.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 28°.
Image scale is roughly 65 Km (about 40 miles) per pixel".
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