Prometheus--lit partly by direct sunlight, and partly by saturnshine--pulls at material in the inner portion of the F ring. Saturnshine is sunlight reflected by the Ringed Planet, which often brightens the night sides of Saturn's moons. This view looks toward Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) and the unilluminated side of the rings from about 41 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 10, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (743,000 miles) from Prometheus and at a Sun-Prometheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 59 degrees. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

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