Saturn dominates this colorful view, taken from a vantage point high above the rings. From here Cassini can see the rings' far side, where the dark shadow of Saturn abruptly terminates their visibility. Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across) casts its shadow onto the planet's northern latitudes below center. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 27 degrees above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 26, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 93 kilometers (58 miles) per pixel.

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