Epimetheus in the Way February 19, 2008 As the Cassini
spacecraft studies the rings, an icy interloper happens past. At
the top of the image, between the spacecraft and the rings, is
Epimetheus. The darker region extending from center right is
within the C ring. Surrounding it are the B ring, Cassini
Division and A ring. This view looks toward the sunlit side of
the rings from about 2 degrees below the ringplane. Epimetheus
is 116 kilometers (72 miles) across. The image was taken in
visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on
Jan. 17, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of
approximately 1.1 million kilometers (707,000 miles) from
Saturn. Image scale is about 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA,
the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science
Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The