By combining 126 snapshots of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft last fall, astronomers have assembled the largest and most-detailed global portrait of the ringed planet ever made.
RINGED PORTRAIT. True-color composite view of Saturn seen by Cassini. NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute
Recorded during a 2-hour interval on Oct.
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