The "night-side" of Saturn (natural colors)

This rare color view of Saturn's night side shows how the Rings dimly illuminate the Southern Hemisphere, giving it a dull golden glow. Part of the Northern dark side is just visible at top - the illumination it receives being far less than the South.
The unlit side of the Rings is shown here. The portion of the Rings closest to Cassini is within the dark shadow of Saturn; the bright distant portion is outside the Planet's shadow.
A crescent Tethys appears below the rings at left.

Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this color view. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 2, 2006, at a distance of approx. 3,8 MKM (about 2,4 MMs) from Saturn and 3,5 MKM (about 2,2 MMs) from Tethys. The image scale is about 23 Km (14 miles) per pixel on Saturn.

Cerchiatura Rossa: probabile evidenza di una "Luna Pastore" (Pandora?) o di un "clump" di notevoli dimensioni (optiamo per la "Shepherd Moon").