Figure 12-24: R I V U X G
Backlit Saturn With Saturn eclipsing the Sun, Cassini took 165 images to form this breathtaking color-enhanced portrait. The contrast was also increased to reveal fainter rings, and the outermost E ring is visible. The E ring contains water-ice particles as well as the moon Enceladus that ejected this water through ice-volcanoes. The ring labels point to the prominent feature of each ring, although the rings are noticeably wide.
Backlit Saturn With Saturn eclipsing the Sun, Cassini took 165 images to form this breathtaking color-enhanced portrait. The contrast was also increased to reveal fainter rings, and the outermost E ring is visible. The E ring contains water-ice particles as well as the moon Enceladus that ejected this water through ice-volcanoes. The ring labels point to the prominent feature of each ring, although the rings are noticeably wide.
(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)