Roughly a quarter of majestic Saturn is illuminated in this view captured while the Cassini spacecraft was orbiting near the planet's equatorial plane.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on November 25, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 92 degrees. Image scale is 116 kilometers (72 miles) per pixel.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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