Saturn's small, irregularly-shaped moon Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across) orbits against the backdrop of the planet’s rings, which are nearly edge-on in this view. Some of the moon’s larger geological features can be seen here. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on February 18, 2005, from a distance of approximately 990,000 kilometers (615,000 miles) from Epimetheus and at a Sun-Epimetheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 99 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.

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