The unlit side of Saturn's rings glows with scattered sunlight as two moons are seen orbiting the gas-giant planet. The light reaching NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this view has traveled many paths before being captured.
At left is Mimas, at 397 kilometers (247 miles) in diameter, presenting its dark side. On the far side of the rings, to the right of Mimas, is Enceladus, at 505 kilometers (314 miles) across, lit by Saturnshine, or reflected sunlight coming from the planet.
Saturn, in turn, is faintly lit in the south by light reflecting off the rings. Saturn's shadow darkens the rings, tapering off toward the left side of the image.
Cassini captured this composition in visible light with its narrow-angle camera on June 11, from a distance of approximately 3.9 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) from Mimas, 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) from Enceladus and 4.1 million kilometers (2.6 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is 25 kilometers (16 miles) per pixel on Saturn.
