Color-composite image from Cassini raw data acquired on March 12, 2012. (NASA/JPL/SSI/J. Major)
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Little Enceladus and enormous Titan are seen on either side of Saturn’s rings in this image, a color-composite made from raw images acquired by Cassini on March 12, 2012. The original images were taken in red, green and blue color channels, and with a little Photoshop editing I combined them into a roughly true-color view of what Cassini saw as it passed within 1,045,591 km of Enceladus.
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Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Edited by Jason Major.
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