The Cassini spacecraft returns a grand and unique vista of Saturn's
horizon, reminiscent of the views of our own planet from Earth orbit.
Similar to the view from PIA08821, the high clouds in the lower part
of the scene cast shadows toward the bottom of the image.
This view was obtained from about 44 degrees above the ringplane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera using
a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at
938 nanometers on Oct. 30, 2006. Cassini was then at a distance of
approximately 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Saturn and at a
Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 150 degrees. Image scale is 8
kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.
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.
