The Cassini probe has returned some really great, high-resolution pictures of Saturn’s rings. The above color-enhanced photo was taken when Saturn was between Cassini and the Sun, allowing features of the rings to standout that normally would be masked by sunlight. It’s a composite of some 165 images taken while Cassini was in Saturn’s shadow. This orientation allowed Cassini to get shots of light reflecting off ring particles as small as a micrometer. At this time Cassini was about 1.3 million miles from Saturn.
Beautiful!
