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Janus: the RingMaster (natural colors; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's battered moon Janus wears the record of its long history of impacts.
Janus (approx. 179 Km, or about 111 miles across) orbits just beyond the outer reaches of Saturn's "A" and "F" Rings, which are seen here.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 4° above the Ring-Plane. The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 28, 2008.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (such as about 703.000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 28°.
Image scale is roughly 7 Km (about 4,5 miles) per pixel".
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