Imaging recource: Processed images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show first true-color image of Saturn’s north pole

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. It is currently in the “Grand Finale” stage of its mission, which entails the spacecraft flying over Saturn’s poles. As is regularly the case, the images from NASA’s Cassini mission and the Grand Finale are available online. Sophia Nasr, an astroparticle physicist, has processed images from NASA to create the first true color image of Saturn’s north pole. Nasr used three photographs and combined them using red, green and blue filters in Photoshop...
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