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DRAMATIC VIEW: Saturn’s rings cast a shadow separating the blues and greens of its northern hemisphere from the creamy pastels of the southern hemisphere. This natural colour view combines two images each of red, green and blue spectral filters that came from the Cassini spacecraft’s wide-angle camera.

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