Cassini’s ability to remain sharply pointed at its targets allowed this image of the faint, dusty G ring to be made. The thin streaks visible here are star trails, which are created during long exposures, when the spacecraft remains locked onto a target; the camera shutter was open for three-and-a-half minutes during this particular exposure. A long exposure was required to see details of this quite tenuous ring. The feature interior to the G ring, at upper right, is also a star trail. The image was taken in polarized visible light with the narrow angle camera on March 7, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 10 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel.

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