Cassini finds artistic harmony in the dark and icy realm of
Saturn. The view shows the crescent of Tethys (1,062 kilometers,
660 miles across) and the outer edge of Saturnís main rings. The
dim, unlit side of the rings is shown here. The narrow F ring
appears bright when seen from angles near the plane of the
rings. Saturnís shadow engulfs the rings along their near edge.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on April 29, 2006 at a distance of
approximately 884,000 kilometers (549,000 miles) from Tethys.
Image scale is 53 kilometers (33 miles) per pixel on Tethys. 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 Cassini-Huygens mission for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging
team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and
Germany. The imaging opera