The Cassini probe has left us with an enormous legacy, and the posted image of Saturn is proof of it: it's hard not to be dazzled!

The giant Saturn suspended in darkness: this magnificent panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on September 15, 2006. The color was digitally composed by merging images from ultraviolet, infrared, and sharp filters, then adjusted to resemble the natural color (as we would actually see it).

The mosaic images were captured while the probe moved into the darkness of Saturn’s shadow for about 12 hours, allowing for a multitude of unique observations of the microscopic particles that make up Saturn’s faint rings. Cassini was approximately 2.2 million kilometers from Saturn when the images in this mosaic were taken. The image scale is about 260 kilometers per pixel.

Credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute

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