What about that shadowy place? When winter approaches the southern hemisphere of Saturn, it brings a familiar blue hue. Scientists believe that the blue tint is caused by a reduction in haze produced by ultraviolet sunlight, which makes the atmosphere clearer. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2013, this view of Saturn was captured at a distance of approximately 1 million miles (1.615 million kilometers) with the spacecraft’s wide-angle camera using red, green, and blue spectral filters to create this natural color view – showing the shadows of the planet’s rings. On its journey to Saturn, Cassini carried a small probe called Huygens. Huygens parachuted to the surface of Titan – Saturn’s largest moon – to study its atmospheric composition, surface, and temperature. The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project between NASA, the European Space Agency, and Italian Space Agency. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute #Saturn #Space #SolarSystem #Cassini #Blue