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Saturn's faintly banded atmosphere is delicately coloured and its threadbare rings cross their own shadows in this natural colour view from Cassini-Huygens.
The image was obtained with the Cassini-Huygens narrow-angle camera on 30 July 2004, at a distance of 7.6 million kilometres from Saturn. Images taken with red, green and blue filters were combined to create this colour view. The image scale is 46 kilometres per pixel.