Best Ever View of Saturn. This view is the best taken of Saturn ever. It has been built from 126 pictures taken by NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission last October 2004. Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA/European ESA/Italian Space Agency mission which began to work in the Saturnian system since July 2004. Like the Galileo mission at Jupiter by the end of the 1990's, Cassini has been placed in orbit around Saturn, allowing there the same comprehensive science that was performed at Jupiter. This is a "natural color view", that is it's matching what we could ourselves see. Saturn is the 6th planet of the solar system. It's orbiting at 900 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) from the Sun as it is slightly smaller in size, with a 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in diameter, than Jupiter. Saturn is rotating in 11 hours as it takes about 29 years to perform its orbit around the Sun. The smallest features seen on this picture are 24 miles (38 kilometers) wide. As it was hurtling into space to reach Saturn, Cassini carried an European ESA probe, Huygens, which was released by the end of 2004 and landed at Titan, Saturn's main moon, in January 2005. Cassini is now on its own, circling Saturn and providing extensive views of Saturn's features, optical and magnetic environment, and of the ring and moons. picture NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute