A large group of spokes emerges from Saturn's shadow in this image taken
of the morning side of the rings. Such groupings may hold clues to the
manner in which these features are formed.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
wide-angle camera on Nov. 2, 2008 at a distance of approximately 869,000
kilometers (540,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or
phase, angle of 37 degrees. Image scale is 48 kilometers (30 miles) per
pixel.
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 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 operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
