Cassini was nearly in the plane of Saturn’s rings when it took this image of Janus (179 kilometers, 111 miles across). The nearly edge-on rings appear almost ribbonlike in this view, and some surface detail is visible on the small moon. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on February 18, 2005, from a distance of approximately 911,000 kilometers (566,000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 101 degrees. The image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.

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