A string of icy moons stretches across the Saturn system in this view from nearly edge-on with the ringplane. Nearest to Cassini is Rhea (1,528 kilometers, 949 miles across) below center; then little Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 miles across), huddled close to the narrow F ring. Dione (1,123 kilometers, 698 miles across) floats in the distance beyond. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 8, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.9 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 14 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel on Rhea and 19 kilometers (12 miles) per pixel on Dione.

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