Some of the most beautiful images of our solar system have come from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Here is another new one, taken on March 12, 2012. It shows two of Saturn’s fascinating moons, Titan (in the background) and Enceladus (in the foreground) along with Saturn’s rings, seen here very obliquely, almost edge-on.
This near-true-colour composite was made from the original raw filter images sent back by Cassini, thanks to Jason Major.
A world of methane rain, lakes and seas and another with water vapour geysers and probable subsurface ocean, together in one picture, amazing.