Sunlight scatters through Saturn's rings, emerging on the unilluminated side. Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) and Pandora (81 kilometers, 50 miles across) are visible here, respectively internal and external to the narrow F ring. This view looks toward the rings from about 17 degrees above the ringplane. The planet's shadow darkens the rings near upper left. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 20, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 103 kilometers (64 miles) per pixel.

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