A surge in brightness appears on the rings directly opposite the Sun from Cassini. This “opposition surge” travels across the rings as the spacecraft watches (see PIA08267). See PIA08247 for a detailed explanation of the opposition effect. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 9 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 12, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 853 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of 524,374 kilometers (325,830 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 31 kilometers (19 miles) per pixel.

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