Three of Saturn's diverse family of moons are captured in this view. Smoggy Titan (5,150 kilometers, 3,200 miles across) hovers above the thin line of the rings. Much smaller Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across) is a mere speck at far left. Bright Enceladus (504 kilometers, 313 miles across) sits directly in front of the ringplane from Cassini's vantage point. Saturn's rings cast dark shadows onto its northern hemisphere. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 23, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (889,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 82 kilometers (51 miles) per pixel.

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