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Saturn global view from Cassini, rings open Better Colour
NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / color composite by Gordan Ugarkovic
2012/09/10
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://www.planetary.org/space-images/saturn_globe_rings_open_ugodan
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Cassini captured the 30 frames required to construct this mosaic on 23 July 2008, from a distance of about a million kilometers. About a year before Saturn's equinox, the ring shadows have shifted from where they were early in Cassini's mission to a fat arc a little above the equator.
