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Saturn in colour
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- Title Saturn in colour
- Released 04/06/2004 2:59 pm
- Copyright NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- Description
Saturn and its rings completely fill the field of view of Cassini's narrow-angle camera in this natural colour image taken on 27 March 2004. This is the last single 'eyeful' of Saturn and its rings achievable with the narrow-angle camera on approach to the planet. From now until orbit insertion, the rings will be larger than the camera's field of view. The image is a composite of three exposures in red, green, and blue, taken when the spacecraft was 47.7 million kilometres from the planet. The image scale of the high-resolution image is 286 kilometres per pixel.
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