Saturn And Rings

Saturn and rings

This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn was taken on 12 August 2017 and received on Earth 13 August 2017.

The camera was pointing toward Saturn at approximately 938955 kilometres away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and RED filters.

The image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calibrated image will be archived with the Planetary Data System in 2018.

The Cassini Solstice Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor.

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 was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany.

The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

More Posts from Rainbow-submarine-blog and Others

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

Sun going down Instagram / Prints

6K notes View Post

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

1K notes View Post

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

247 notes View Post

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

last light

by Denny Bitte

13K notes View Post

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

208 notes View Post

rainbow-submarine-blog

7 years ago

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody. And the people under the sky were also very much the same-everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yes almost exactly the same-people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”

(1984, George Orwell)