Cassini looks up from beneath the ringplane to spot Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) and Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 miles across) orbiting between Saturn’s A and F rings. The F ring displays its characteristic clumps while scientists are watching diligently for signs of tiny, embedded moons. Prometheus is responsible for some of the clumpy structure in the F ring. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on August 28, 2005, from a distance of approximately 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is about 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.

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