June 27, 2017

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Image: Saturnian dawn

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers toward a sliver of Saturn's sunlit atmosphere while the icy rings stretch across the foreground as a dark band.

This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 7 degrees below the . The image was taken in with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 31, 2017.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 38 miles (61 kilometers) per pixel.

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