US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to present another unique picture transmitted to Earth automatic interplanetary station “Cassini» (Cassini).
In the released the image was captured Saturn and its rings at a side – they look like a narrow strip of exfoliating. The photograph was taken by May 25 More installed on board the “Cassini» (Cassini) wide-angle camera using a filter sensitive to infrared radiation. The machine is at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers from the planet.
Experts NASA explain that the filter applied is particularly sensitive to the infrared radiation absorbed by methane, which is present in the atmosphere of Saturn. This allows you to evaluate the reflective properties of clouds. In the photograph the dark color of the corresponding clouds in the lower atmosphere, light – in the top.
Let’s add that the station “Cassini” was launched back in 1997. To disperse the apparatus used the gravitational field of the three planets. He twice went close to Venus – in 1998 and 1999, and then, in August 1999, at a rate of 69 thousand. Km / h went around the earth, and the winter of 2000 flew by Jupiter. Before the probe reached Saturn in June 30, 2004, ie 11 years ago.
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