The small ring moon Atlas (30 kilometers, 19 miles across) is seen here, on the far side of Saturn’s immense ring system. Cassini was only 0.6 degrees above the ring plane when this image was taken. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on March 11, 2005 from a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers (957,000 miles) from Atlas and at a Sun-Atlas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 100 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 9 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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