These Are the Highest Resolution Photos of Saturn's Rings Ever Taken

NASA has released the highest-resolution

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color images of Saturn's rings to date, coming from of the inner-central part of the planet's B ring. The image above and the natural color image below were taken by the Cassini spacecraft on July 17.

In the picture above, "blue colors represent areas where the spectrum at visible wavelengths is less reddish (meaning the spectrum is flatter toward red wavelengths), while red colors represent areas that are spectrally redder (meaning the spectrum has a steeper spectrum toward red wavelengths)," according to the space agency.

The image is a mosaic of a sunlit area of Saturn's rings that lies somewhere between 61,300 and 65,600 miles from Saturn's center. The agency has also taken a natural color composite, which uses images taken with red, green and blue spectral filters.