About a month and a half ago (11 Oct 2006), NASA released this absolutely stunning image of the night side of Saturn, taken from a composite of 165 Cassini photographs:
Source: NASA
NASA explains how the image was obtained:
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.
This marvelous panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on Sept. 15, 2006. The full mosaic consists of three rows of nine wide-angle camera footprints; only a portion of the full mosaic is shown here. Color in the view was created by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared and clear filter images and was then adjusted to resemble natural color.
(continue reading at NASA’s web site)
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