Saturn from 618.000 Km

Caption NASA originale:"Cassini pierced the ring plane and rounded Saturn on Oct. 27, 2004, capturing this view of the dark portion of the rings. A portion of the planet's atmosphere is visible here, as is its shadow on the surface of the rings.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera on Oct. 27, 2004, at a distance of about 618.000 Km from Saturn through a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 1001 nanometers. The image scale is 33 Km per pixel".