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The "beginnings" of the Rings
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Caption NASA:"High above the streamers of cloud in Saturn's atmosphere the Planet's immense Ring System begins with faint, thin rings populated with dust-sized ice particles. Here, features in the D-Ring are visible, beginning at about 67.000 Km (approx. 42.000 miles) from the Planet's center.
Stars trail across the background during this exposure, timed to capture the faint light from these D-Ring features.
This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings, from about 59° above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 9, 2007 at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (1,1 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel".
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