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The Main Ring-System
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Caption NASA originale:"This expansive view takes in most of Saturn's main Ring System, from the outer C-Ring to the narrow and knotted-looking F-Ring. The broad brightness plateaus in the C-Ring (at bottom) transform into the more densely populated (and thus darker in this viewing geometry) B-Ring. The Rings' appearance becomes brighter and smoother beyond the bands of the Cassini Division, in the A-Ring. This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 49° above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 21, 2006 at a distance of approx. 539,000 Km (about 335.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 98°.
Image scale is 29 kilometers (18 miles) per pixel".
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