Saturn's inner C ring spreads across the field of view, showing the
characteristic plateau and wave-like structure for which it is famed.
The center of this image shows an area approximately 75,000 kilometers
(46,600 miles) from Saturn. The dark gap through the middle of the frame
is the Colombo gap which houses the bright, narrow, eccentric Colombo
ringlet, in resonance with the moon Titan.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on
Oct. 29, 2004, at a distance of about 842,000 (523,000 miles) from
Saturn. The image scale is 4.7 kilometers (2.9 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 Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras,
were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based
at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.