Cassini spies multiple spokes in Saturn’s outer B ring. The precise origin and evolution of these transient features continue to provide ring scientists with intriguing puzzles to solve. Most of these spokes are about 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) long; the two near the bottom of the scene are about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) wide. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 8 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 2, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.2 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.

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