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Okay, let me ask a basic naive (but science fact) question: We all see spaceprobe photos, or Hubble telescope images, showing our outer planets or this or that distant nebula, and the images are bright and the colours rainbow beautiful ...
But those are all computer-enhanced, right?
If an astronaut or cosmonaut or taikonaut orbiting Saturn (let's say) were to look out her porthole ... What would Saturn look like to the naked human eye?
Because the Sun is far distant, obviously.
Does enough sunlight fall on Saturn for it to look illuminated to the human eye? Or is outer space far from the Sun just dark?
Saturn image from Cassini probe ... but ... ?
But those are all computer-enhanced, right?
If an astronaut or cosmonaut or taikonaut orbiting Saturn (let's say) were to look out her porthole ... What would Saturn look like to the naked human eye?
Because the Sun is far distant, obviously.
Does enough sunlight fall on Saturn for it to look illuminated to the human eye? Or is outer space far from the Sun just dark?
Saturn image from Cassini probe ... but ... ?