Saturn’s shadow spreads across the rings here, extending beyond the F ring and its tenuous, flanking ringlets. This view catches Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across) on its day-long sojourn around the planet. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on August 24, 2005, from a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 84 degrees. The image scale is 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.

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