# Saturn global view from Cassini, rings open Better Colour

- By: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / color composite by Gordan Ugarkovic
- Date: 2012/09/10
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/saturn_globe_rings_open_ugodan
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_global_view_from_Cassini,_rings_open_Better_Colour.png)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/4/43/Saturn_global_view_from_Cassini%2C_rings_open_Better_Colour.png/1920px-Saturn_global_view_from_Cassini%2C_rings_open_Better_Colour.png
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.