Dark ring shadows adorn the northern hemisphere of Saturn. The shadows have loosened
their grip on the north compared to when Cassini arrived in 2004 (see PIA06177), and
presently continue to slide farther south.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5 degrees above the
ringplane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural
color view. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 22,
2007, at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (839,000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is 77 kilometers (48 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.
