Cassini takes in a sweeping view of Saturn's south polar region as the
planet's shadow masks the rings and bright, icy Mimas looks on from left.
This view looks toward the lit side of the rings from about 28 degrees
below the ring plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this color view. The view was acquired with the wide-angle camera
on Feb. 20, 2007, at a distance of approximately 1 million kilometers
(600,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 58 kilometers (36 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.
