Incredible Cassini Image Reveals New Saturn Phenomena
Credit: NASA/JPL/CICLOPS SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Saturn, with its ring system spanning 621,000 mi., is imaged from the NASA Cassini orbiter flying 1.3 million mi. above the planet as it eclipsed the Sun. Earth is visible (arrow) nearly 1 billion mi. away. For scale, the width of the entire Saturn ring system is 2.5 times greater than the distance...
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