Saturn's Shadow

[glenc (Glen)]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html
In the Shadow of Saturn
Credit: SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn and slightly scattering sunlight, in the above exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the above image. Visible in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus, and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

That is Awsome, now adorning my desktop !

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thats COOL!!!!!!!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

That's pretty special

[fringe_dweller]

finally its on APOD!, been everywhere else lol - their getting slow there now,
every now and then something very special comes along, thats maybe the image of the year/decade for me - and theres a lot of awesome images out there - that has so much going on in it

[glenc (Glen)]

I like the bit at the end.
Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

[Tamtarn]

The Cassini Imaging Team have given us some wonderous images. These are awsome.........Thanks Glen