The edge of night

Cassini yet again with another gem, this time the rings of Saturn on the edge of night. :)

Saturn’s shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on Nov. 5, 2006 by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In the bottom half of the image, the countless icy particles that make up the rings bask in full daylight. In the top half, they move through Saturn’s shadow. On the right side of the image, the planet’s night side, dimly lit by reflected ringshine, can be seen through gaps in the darkened rings.


This view is a mosaic of four visible light images taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 932,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Saturn.