This view of the unlit side of Saturn's rings captures the small shepherd
moon Pandora as it swings around the outside of the F ring. The F ring
displays a few discrete bright clumps here.
This view looks toward the rings from about 24 degrees above the
ringplane. Pandora is 84 kilometers (52 miles) across.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Dec. 15, 2006 at a distance of approximately 680,000
kilometers (422,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 37 kilometers (23
miles) per pixel.
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.