Saturn’s Moons and Rings

"From on high, the Cassini spacecraft spies a group of three ring moons in their travels around Saturn. Her moon Janus (181 kilometers, or 113 miles across) is seen at top, while her moon Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across) hugs the outer edge of the narrow F ring. More difficult to spot is Pan (26 kilometers, or 16 miles across), which is a mere speck in this view. Pan can be seen in the Encke Gap, near center right. (See PIA08389 for a labeled Cassini map of the rings.) The speck seen between the A and F rings at left is a background star.

This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 40 degrees above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view.”

Credit: NASA/JPL/Cassini