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Shadow of the Rings

Nov. 2, 2004
The inner edges of Saturn's rings arc gracefully across the top of this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

The inner edges of Saturn's rings arc gracefully across the top of this image from Cassini. Thin shadows cast by the rings are visible at upper right through the optically thin C ring.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit, http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page, http://ciclops.org.

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