Anneaux de Saturne vus par Cassini - Saturn's rings from Cassini - Image obtenue par...

Anneaux de Saturne vus par Cassini - Saturn's rings from Cassini - Image obtenue par la sonde Cassini le 26 novembre 2008 a une distance de 1,1 million de km de la planete. Cette vue en couleurs naturelles montre le systeme des anneaux de Saturne jusqu'a l'anneau F. Le systeme des anneaux est compose du plus proche de Saturne au plus exterieur par l'anneau D, puis C, B, la division de Cassini, A avec la division de Encke, F, G et E. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below the illuminated side of the rings, shows, from left to right, radially outward from Saturn, the C ring (with its Colombo and Maxwell gaps); the B ring and the Cassini division beyond, with the intervening Huygens gap; the A ring (with its Encke and Keeler gaps); and, on the far right, the narrow F ring. The total span covers approximately 65,700 kilometers (40,800 miles). Although it is too faint to be seen here, the D ring is located just to the left of the C ring. The mosaic was constructed from 45 narrow - angle - camera images - - 15 separate sets of red, green and blue images - - taken over the course of about four hours, as Cassini scanned across the rings. The images in this view were obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2008, at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun - Saturn - spacecraft, or phase, angle of 28 degrees. Image scale in the radial (horizontal) direction is about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) per pixel