Round and Round
Just as Saturn's famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet's
north pole, the rings encircle the planet, as seen from Cassini's position high
above. Around and around everything goes!
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 43 degrees
above the ringplane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle
camera on Nov. 23, 2013 using a spectral filter that preferentially admits
wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.
The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.6 million miles (2.5
million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle
of 97 degrees. Image scale is 93 miles (150 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a
division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the
mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini
orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at
JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in
Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission,
visit: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science
Institute
NASA
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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