The view is directed toward Saturn's southern hemisphere, which is tipped toward the Sun. This unprocessed image shows features in Saturn's atmosphere from closer than ever before.

The planet Saturn is seen in the first color composite made of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its approach to the ringed planet, October 21, 2002.

Saturn's aurora. [In Photos: Cassini's Last Views of Saturn at Mission's End] Cassini image of Saturn’s geyser-blasting moon Enceladus, captured on Sept. 13, 2017. The view was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its … NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Leicester. Each Saturn Photo is imaged the very high resolution Cassini on board cameras. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later. Saturn Photos - Buy beautiful Saturn photos, Saturn images and pictures, including pictures the orbiting Saturn moons. Images collected during Cassini's superclose orbits in 2017 are giving scientists new insight into the complex workings of the rings. Here are some photos the probe took over the years. On Friday, the Cassini spacecraft ended its 20-year mission to Saturn by deliberately crashing into the planet’s surface. This image is one of Cassini's last views of Saturn from a distance, taken Oct. 28, 2016, before it headed in for a series of close orbits. Saturn and its spectacular rings, in a natural-colour composite of 126 images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on October 6, 2004.

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space … At a distance of just under 900 million miles, Earth shines bright among the many stars in the sky, distinguished by its bluish tint. Saturn's moon Enceladus, covered in snow and ice, resembles a perfectly packed snowball in this image from NASA's Cassini mission released on Dec. 23, 2013. The images are sorted by the time of their observation; start time, exposure time, observed hemisphere and radial distance of Cassini from Saturn… Cassini: Earth and Saturn “The Day Earth Smiled” Through the brilliance of Saturn’s rings, Cassini caught a glimpse of a far-away planet and its moon.

Earth isn't the only planet to experience southern and northern auroras, the phenomenon of lights in the sky. This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini took infrared images of Saturn's south pole in 2010 that for the first time allowed a study of Saturn's aurora. Shadows cast by the rings are visible against the bluish northern hemisphere, while the planet's shadow is projected on the rings to the left.

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