Saturn's rings in color

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Cassini took the images for this view across all of Saturn's main rings with its wide-angle camera on April 17, 2009. A shadow of one of the moons (perhaps Mimas?) is being cast on the rings.

NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic

Copyright holder: Gordan Ugarkovic

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