PIA06098: Wide View of Saturn's F Ring
This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
 Target Name:  S Rings
 Is a satellite of:  Saturn
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens 
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  CICLOPS/Space Science Institute 
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06098.tif (311.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06098.jpg (25.89 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This is one of the first images taken of Saturn's F ring by the Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit. It was taken by the spacecraft's wide angle camera and shows the sunlit side of the rings.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image Addition Date:
2004-07-01