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Reason
stunning, hi res, and enc.
Proposed caption
This grand mosaic consists of 126 images acquired in a tile-like fashion, covering Saturn's rings from one end of 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. Since the view seen by Cassini during this time changed very little, no re-projection or alteration of any of the images was necessary. For more on the creation of the image, see Nasa's summary.
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Saturn
Creator
NASA
  • This may be the source of the aberration:
"Three images (red, green and blue) were taken of each of 42 locations, or "footprints," across the planet. The full color footprints were put together to produce a mosaic [...]" --Malachirality (talk) 04:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just like the old Technicolor movies - which sometimes do show color fringing, too... --Janke | Talk 09:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Saturn from Cassini Orbiter (2004-10-06).jpg MER-C 02:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]