
Thank you to Carolyn Porco for this fantastic shot fresh overnight from Cassini.
Embiggerate the picture and see how many moons you can find. And see the remnants of the former planet-wide storm in the top hemisphere?
Here's what the Ciclops site says about what you are viewing:
Four of Saturn's moons join the planet here. Two of these -- Janus and Epimetheus -- are almost lost in this view due to their small size. Mimas (246 miles, 396 kilometers across) appears as a bright dot below the rings just to the right of the center of the image.
Enceladus (313 miles, 504 kilometers across) is visible below the rings on the far right of the image. Janus (111 miles, 179 kilometers across) can just barely be discerned as a tiny speck past Enceladus on the right edge of the image. Epimetheus (70 miles, 113 kilometers across) is likewise tiny, and can be detected on the extreme left of the image above the rings.It's no wonder the Cassini mission was extended - it just keeps on giving!
This view looks toward the southern, unilluminated side of the rings from just below the ringplane.
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