Darkness Descending
Saturn unusual appearance in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft is a result of the planet being imaged via an infrared filter. Infrared images can help scientists determine the location of clouds in the planet atmosphere.
- Date
- 2015-08-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Darkness Descending" (2015-08-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18332Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 84344.
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