Re:NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of...
by Flenser on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:28AM
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Why does Saturn appear green in this image but brown in the banner image above it?
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Re:NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of...
by sp332 on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:36AM
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"The new processed mosaic [is] composed of 60 images taken in the violet, visible and near infrared part of the spectrum". So the colors in the image were chosen for artistic effect, and are not "true" colors because you couldn't see some of them anyway.
This image was specifically processed to look closer to real colors: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/gallery...