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Saturn northern hemisphere seen by Cassini spacecraft

author: Nasa/JPL/SSI/Novapix

reference: a-sat05-10067

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 8 cm

Cassini scanned across the planet and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. The images were obtained using Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at an elevation of about 30 degrees above the ring plane. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from a sun-Saturn-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 55 degrees.

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2016 - ASTRONOMY - CASSINI - GLOBAL VIEW - ICE - PLANET - RING - SATURN -