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Description: This view from the Cassini spacecraft provides a crisp look at the fine material and detailed structure in the Cassini Division that is not readily visible from the Earth. The faint F ring, just visible between Mimas and the A ring, bounds the main rings of Saturn. Mimas is 397 kilometers (247 miles) across. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 4 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 7, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.9 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 18 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel on Mimas.
Title: Cassini Division
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09750 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by TheDJ using CommonsHelper.
Author: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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