This enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color Cassini spacecraft images, making the contrast between regions north and south of the ring shadows more readily apparent.
The northern region is marked by a multitude of bright, patchy clouds. The region south of the ring shadows contains the bright equatorial band seen in many monochrome Cassini views taken at infrared wavelengths.
This view makes Saturn’s rings faintly visible at lower left. The false color enhancement brings out additional detail in the planet’s clouds that is not visible in the natural color view. The view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 52 degrees above the ringplane.Image credit: NASA