Thursday, May 03, 2007

Faint Rings

faint ringsCassini, still above the ringplane, takes another shot of the unlit side of the rings. Here the shadow on the planet is easier to see than the rings themselves, which are faint, yet still spectacular.

As the JPL Cassini-Huygens team says:
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 29 degrees above the ringplane. The rings are made visible on this side (their "dark" side) by sunlight that scatters though them and by occulting the planet and background stars.

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