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Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other images. See original post here by Jason Major.
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“Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera on Cassini on December 6, 2015. Cassini was about 37,400 km from Prometheus when the images were acquired. Part of the F ring is visible in the background at the top.” — Jason Major

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