Take a look at this pic of Saturn ’s rings , taken by Cassini ’s wide - angle television camera last month , 270,000 naut mi behind Saturn . When I first view it , I recollect it could n’t be real , but the account is easy .
Cassini was in a position similar to the one in which it use up this photo , looking to Saturn from below :
However , the Sun was in a dissimilar piazza , which explain the knockout black shadow over the part of the ring closer to the spacecraft :
The understanding why we can see the rings over the planet itself , as Phil Plait explains inBad Astronomy , is because the rings on the right reflect light onto the back of the planet . What we are looking at on the left side is the silhouette of the rings against the dimly ignite back of Saturn .
How exquisite , how delicate this vista is … and yet , how immense — each of the pixels is 22 kilometers broad in real aliveness — and overwhelming . Once again , the Universe leaves me in awe . [ CiclopsviaBad Astronomy ]
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