# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-05-21T15:49:58.000+00:00
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## Caption

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

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