Looking down through the A ring and Cassini Division, the Cassini spacecraft sees the
bright limb of Saturn. The view shows a portion the rings from the outer B ring, at upper
right, to the F ring at bottom.
See PIA08389 for a labeled map of Saturn's rings.
The perspective is toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 15 degrees
above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera
on Dec. 12, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.2 million
kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 28 kilometers (17 miles)
per pixel in the radial, or outward from Saturn, direction; and 13 kilometers (8 miles)
per pixel in the longitudinal, or around Saturn, direction.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space
Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's
Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard
cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations
center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm.
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .
