Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) poses here with its latest creation: a dark, diagonal gore in the tenuous material interior to Saturn’s F ring. The shepherd moon creates a new gore each time it comes closest to the F ring in its orbit of Saturn, and the memory of previous passes is preserved in the rings’s structure for some time afterward. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005 from a distance of approximately 499,000 kilometers (310,000 miles) from Saturn and at a high Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 144 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 3 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel.

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