Portrait Of A Pearl At Dusk

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Enceladus hangs like a single bright pearl against the golden-brown canvas of Saturn and its icy rings. Visible on Saturn is the region where daylight gives way to dusk. Above, the rings throw thin shadows onto the planet.

by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (SPX) March 7, 2006
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's moon Enceladus hanging like a single bright pearl against the golden-brown canvas of the icy rings and the faint outline of the planet at dusk - complete with faint ring shadows falling across Saturn's surface.

Icy Enceladus is 505 kilometers (314 miles) across.

Cassini's wide-angle camera captured the image using red, green and blue spectral filters to create this natural color view. The image was taken Jan. 17 at a distance of approximately 200,000 kilometers (100,000 miles) from Enceladus. The image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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