250,000 Kilometers of Saturn’s Rings

Animated as a perspective fly-over. Data Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill Data acquired on July 26 2009 by Cassini’s narrow angle camera. The rings are illuminated with sunlight angled edge-on to the ring plane (Saturn 2009 equinox) making vertical structures in the B Ring visible. Source imagery scale is approximately 2 km/pixel. The images are in grayscale and reprojected to a ring-cylindrical projection. Horizontal (perpendicular to the ringlets) instrument noise is visible and is no