Through the Rings...

Caption NASA originale:"The dark shadows that drape Saturn's Northern Latitudes are split by 3 familiar bright gaps. From bottom to top, Sunlight passes through the broad Cassini Division (4.800 Km - or about 2.980 miles - wide), the Encke Gap (325 Km - or about 200 miles - wide) and (barely visible) the Keeler Gap (42 Km - or about 26 miles - wide).

It is unlikely that the shadows cast by Saturn's Rings have much of an effect on the large-scale movements of the atmosphere. The dynamic clouds of this Gas Giant are driven by processes going on much deeper inside the Planet, where Sunlight does not penetrate.

The image was taken using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The image was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on April 28, 2006 at a distance of approximately 377.000 Km (about 234.000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is roughly 19 Km (such as about 12 miles) per pixel".