Credit: NASA/JPL/space Science Institute

 

From a vantage point high above Saturn's cloud tops, the Cassini spacecraft looks down on the planet's nightside. The dark side of the rings is barely visible in the top half of the image. Cassini was 44° above the ringplane.

 

Images taken in 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 30 October 2006, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million km from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft angle of 150°. Image scale is 78 km per pixel.

 

Further reading

Cassini-Huygens Mission

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

 

 

Aymen Mohamed Ibrahem