This detailed view of Saturn’s mid-B ring shows intriguing structure, the cause of which has yet to be well-explained by ring scientists. The image shows a radial location located between approximately 107,200 to 115,700 kilometers (66,600 to 71,900 miles) from Saturn. The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on Sept. 3, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The image scale is 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

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