Saturn's rings appear golden as the planet's shadow drapes across nearly
the whole span of the rings. In the upper left corner is Saturn's moon
Mimas.
This color image was taken on August 15, 2004, with the Cassini
spacecraft narrow angle camera, using the red, green, and blue filters.
The image was taken 8.8 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) from
Saturn. Contrast has been enhanced to aid visibility.
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 Science Mission
Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard
cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
