Saturn’s neon glow, represented in brilliant shades of electric blue, sapphire and mint green, has been captured by the Cassini spacecraft while flying over the unlit side of the planet’s rings.This image, providing a striking view of the ringed planet, was taken when the spacecraft was one million miles away.
In this view, Cassini was looking down on the northern, unlit side of the rings, which are rendered visible by sunlight filtering through from the sunlit, southern face.
The striking mosaic was created from 25 images taken over a period of 13 hours with an onboard instrument called the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, equivalent to two cameras: one is used to measure visible wavelengths, the other heat radiation (infrared).
Here the views are combined, using “false colours” to represent wavelengths of light that human eyes can’t detect.
Source: Telegraph
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