14 DAY TRIAL // Land and even space telescopes are getting better and better, some peeking into the first instants after the Big Bang. But not even the most powerful will ever be able to see certain things, simply because they are stuck close to Earth.
For some things, like a night view of Saturn, you simply have to travel. Luckily, the Cassini probe has been flying around Saturn for the past decade or so and has been sending back spectacular images ever since.
One of the latest, from a couple of weeks ago, rivals some of the greatest Cassini has sent over the years. It's a shot snapped high above Saturn, with a view of all of the rings and the north pole.
The image was put together from several shots made by Cassini on October 10, by amateur astro photo editor Gordan Ugarkovic.
"This image has not been geometrically corrected for shifts in the spacecraft perspective and still has some camera artifacts. The mosaic was created from 12 image footprints with red, blue and green filters from Cassini's imaging science subsystem. Ugarkovic used full color sets for 11 of the footprints and red and blue images for one footprint," NASA explained.