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Why does Saturn appear green in this image but brown in the banner image above it?

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• sp332 14y ago
  "The new processed mosaic [is] composed of 60 images taken in the violet, visible and near infrared part of the spectrum". So the colors in the image were chosen for artistic effect, and are not "true" colors because you couldn't see some of them anyway. This image was specifically processed to look closer to real colors: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/gallery/pia08329.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/gallery...