Saturn’s Clouds in Warm False Color

This composite picture of Saturn uses infrared to show the warmer clouds deep in the atmosphere superimposed with the reflected sunlight from the upper haze layers. The temperatures of the clouds are insensitive to sunlight, so we seem them on the night side as well as the day side. See here for details.

Cassini Image PIA08732, NASA
Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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