Saturn's Rings in Pink

Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL, Posted on: Friday, 23 July 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

With shimmering pinks, hues of gray and a hint of brown, a newly released image of Saturn's rings resembles a fresco where nature is the painter. The Cassini spacecraft captured this image a few days before entering orbit around Saturn. The images that make up this composition were obtained from Cassini's vantage point beneath the ring plane with the narrow angle camera on June 21, 2004. The image was taken at a distance of 6.4 million kilometers (4 million miles) from Saturn.

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