Epimetheus floats above Saturn’s swirling skies. Beyond Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across), the narrow F ring appears dark from this vantage point, against the much brighter planet. The three largest gaps in the rings--the Keeler and Encke Gaps and the Cassini Division--appear as bright regions in the darkened ringplane. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 7 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 1, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.9 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) from Epimetheus. Image scale is 12 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel.

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