Scanning the Rings
Date: 26 April 2005
Satellite: Cassini-Huygens
Depicts: Rings of Saturn
Copyright: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
This image shows (from top to bottom) the A ring with the Encke gap, the Cassini Division, and the B and C rings.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on 26 April 2005 at a distance of approximately 2.3 million kilometres from Saturn. The image scale is 14 kilometres per pixel.
Last Update: 1 September 2019