Take a attending at this photo of Saturn's rings, taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera endure month, 270,000 afar abaft Saturn. When I aboriginal saw it, I anticipation it couldn't be real, but the account is easy.
Cassini was in a position agnate to the one in which it took this photo, searching to Saturn from below:
However, the Sun was in a altered place, which explains the harder atramentous adumbration over the allotment of the rings afterpiece to the spacecraft:
The acumen why we can see the rings over the planet itself, as Phil Plait explains in Bad Astronomy, is because the rings on the appropriate reflect ablaze assimilate the aback of the planet. What we are searching at on the larboard ancillary is the contour of the rings adjoin the dimly afire aback of Saturn.
How exquisite, how aerial this arena is... and yet, how immense—each of the pixels is 22 kilometers advanced in absolute life—and overwhelming. Once again, the Universe leaves me in awe. [Ciclops via Bad Astronomy]
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