G Ring, Brightened by Time

Date: 06 March 2005
Satellite: Cassini-Huygens
Depicts: Rings of Saturn
Copyright: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The feature inside the G ring, at upper right, is also a star trail.
The image was taken in polarized visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on 7 March 2005 at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometres from Saturn. The image scale is 10 kilometres per pixel.
Last Update: 1 September 2019