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Saturn in psychedelic colors

Cassini photographed Saturn using an infrared filter

Saturn
Saturn

This psychedelic-colored view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera using filters that are sensitive to infrared wavelengths centered on wavelengths of 728, 752, and 890 nanometers.

Cassini took these pictures on December 13, 2006 from a distance of about 822 thousand km from Saturn. The scale of the image is 46 kilometers per pixel.

For information on the NASA website

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