Sun Spots Image Although Cassini's camera can see

Although Cassini's camera can see more colors than humans can

as well as by large ground-based telescopes such as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope

The floor of the crater is occupied by a striking field of sand dunes

The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels

Sun Spots Image Although Cassini's camera can seeSunspot observed with the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST). This image shows the transition from the dark umbra (bottom) toward solar granulation (top). The penumbra in between shows filaments with central dark lanes. Credit: The SST is operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, observation taken 2002 by G. Scharmer.