NASA’s Cassini orbiter captured this view of Saturn on June 15, from a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers). The rings’ shadow runs across the planet’s sunlit side. The speck in the lower left corner is Enceladus, a 313-mile-wide (504-kilometer-wide) moon of Saturn.
That is absolutely stunning. Awesome in the old-fashioned sense of the word.
I could hardly believe it’s a photo. My first thought was some contemporary drawing or painting of some kind because it’s so precise.
Very nice. I always wonder about the fidelity of the colors in such pictures. I know for example that some of the Mars Curiosity photographs were color enhanced or altered.
Hmm, I’ve seen a lot of color photos that have been adjusted one way or another. I suppose in a black and white shot, they might have increased the contrast and/or sharpness. Or this might have been a color photo originally. But I like to think this is exactly what Cassini saw.
That’s COOL!!!!
I continue to be amazed that we can send our tiny little contraptions out to such great distance and actually get signals back from them — not to mention pictures like this.