Crescent Enceladus and Crescent Rings

Sunlight reflects off the bright, frozen surfaces of the billions and billions of particles comprising Saturn's Rings to brighten the Planet's Southern Skies.
The particles in Saturn's Rings are each too small to be seen by Cassini in this image but, if they could, each would look like the bright reflective crescent of Enceladus seen here, with each reflecting sunlight onto the Southern Hemisphere of the Planet.

The image was taken in polarized infrared light with Cassini's wide-angle camera on Nov. 2, 2005, at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (1,1 MMs) from Saturn and at a phase angle of 119°. The image scale is roughly 104 Km (about 65 miles) per pixel.