Cassini gazes down toward Saturn’s unilluminated ringplane to find Janus hugging the outer edge of the rings. This view looks toward the rings from about 3 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 29, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from Janus. Image scale is 9 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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