grooves on blue

Cassini peers through Saturn's delicate, translucent inner C ring to see the diffuse blue limb of Saturn's atmosphere. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 20 degrees above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 25, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers (913,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.

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