Saturn Colored for the Holidays
854 views · Published 20 December 2012 · 0:31 · Indexed 8 October 2026
Channel: The Weather Channel · 2012 · Science & Technology
This is Saturn in the shadows. The Cassini spacecraft captured this image of the planet with the sun behind it, shielding the cameras from direct sunlight. This was taken using infrared, red and violet filters at about 500,000 miles from Saturn.
