In Saturn's bluish north, day ends for the dreamy white clouds that
stretch here into twilight.
This natural color scene shows middle latitudes in Saturn's north at
excellent resolution, and with little detectable blur due to spacecraft
motion.
North on Saturn is up and rotated 22 degrees to the right.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this color view. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on April 1, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2
million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Saturn and at a
Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 86 degrees. Image scale is about
12 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
