NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunning new view of Saturn’s sprawling ‘ringbow.’
A breathtaking image taken roughly 680,000 miles from the planet shows the banded arc stretching far out into the blackness of space, in a scene reminiscent of the stunning rainbows seen here on Earth – albeit without the characteristic sequence of colors.
Depending on where the craft is situated when it views the rings, these features can take on vastly different appearances, causing them to sometimes seem wispy and shadowed, and other times appear as bold stripes in the sky. Read more...
A breathtaking image taken roughly 680,000 miles from the planet shows the banded arc stretching far out into the blackness of space, in a scene reminiscent of the stunning rainbows seen here on Earth – albeit without the characteristic sequence of colors.
Depending on where the craft is situated when it views the rings, these features can take on vastly different appearances, causing them to sometimes seem wispy and shadowed, and other times appear as bold stripes in the sky. Read more...