In natural light, the majority of Saturn has that sorta drab beige coloring. Even with in the near-infrared (the blue-Saturn images), Cassini's wide angle camera didn't show all that much. But zoom in with Cassini's narrow-angle camera in the near-infrared and you really see the cloud structures that make up the planet's gaseous atmosphere. Bands, jet streams, color variations, and fluffy clouds!

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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