The First True Color Images of Saturns North Pole are Stunning

[n2doc]

On April 26th, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its long-awaited first dive in between Saturn’s rings, bringing it closer to the planet than ever before. And if you were on the spacecraft looking at Saturn’s north pole with your own eyes as it flew by, this is what you would have seen.

This spectacular image was created by astroparticle physicist Sophia Nasr, and it’s one of the first true color images EVER of Saturn’s North Pole and the persistent hurricane churning away at 300+ miles per hour up there. Previous false-color photos typically showed a reddish hurricane, making the true-color blue version that much more beautiful.

Nasr used Photoshop to create the true-color photo, painstakingly combining three separate images Cassini captured using Red, Green, and Blue filters.



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https://petapixel.com/2017/05/01/first-true-color-images-saturns-north-pole-stunning/

[brush]

1. Spectacular. Wonder if that blue pole is large enough to swallow the Earth whole?

[n2doc]

3. Earth is a bit bigger

But not much


(I think the blue area is about the same size as that slightly darker area on the south pole of Saturn)

[shenmue]

2. Pretty

[byronius]

4. Holy cow that's gorgeous.

Wow.

[Enoki33]

5. Thanks.

[sakabatou]

6. So this is what we'd see outside of a window on a spaceship?

[lunatica]

7. I love this stuff!

It puts everything into perspective.

[demmiblue]

8. Fascinating.

K&R!

[lastlib]

9. In-DEED!!

Thanks for this n2doc! We need more science and facts and less superstition and "alternative facts"!