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Saturn eclipse

2006-09-15

Classification: Photograph
Museum: Wikimedia Commons
Credit line: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 (compressed version of http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA08329.tif)
Rights: Public domain, as the museum states it.
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About this work

Saturn eclipsing the sun, seen from behind from the Cassini orbiter. The image is a composite assembled from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 15 September, 2006.

Individual rings seen include (in order, starting from most distant)

E ring

Pallene ring (visible very faintly in an arc just below Saturn)

G ring

Janus/Epimetheus ring (faint)

F ring (narrow brightest feature)

Main rings (A,B,C)

D ring (bluish, nearest Saturn)