While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made.
This grand mosaic consists of 126 images acquired in a tile-like fashion, covering one end of Saturn’s rings to the other and the entire planet in between. The images were taken over the course of two hours on Oct. 6, 2004, while Cassini was approximately 6.3 million kilometers (3.9 million miles) from Saturn.
Photo Credits
Image is Public Domain – NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image Produced By – CICLOPS/Space Science Institute
This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 27 May 2007.
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