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The Rings (in natural colors)
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's sunlit Rings gleam in the blackness as two icy moons cruise past in the foreground.
Enceladus is a small crescent near upper left; Janus is a speck above the F-Ring, near center. Janus was brightened slightly for visibility.
This view looks toward the lit side of the Rings from about 5° below the Ring-Plane.
This image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 7, 2006, at a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (about 700.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or phase, angle of 139°.
Image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is roughly 63 Km (about 39 miles) per pixel".
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