These Are the Most Epic Pictures of Saturn You've Ever Seen

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By Breanna Draxler
Oct 17, 2013 6:47 PMNov 20, 2019 2:15 AM
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Wow. Just, wow. Image credit: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute / GordanUgarkovic One week ago, Cassini snapped three dozen photos of Saturn, looking down from 935,000 miles above the ringed planet. The spacecraft split the shots between red, green and blue filters to approximate true color. The story may have ended there if a Croatian software developer hadn't taken it upon himself to make them into this jaw-dropping mosaic. Astronomy experts can't contain their excitement. Planetary Society blogger Emily Lakdawalla says it's "One for the history books,"

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