SATURN'S RINGS

Image 1: Saturn C-ring and B-ring with many ringlets. False-color image. Aug. 23, 1981. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech More Information: Voyager Mission Home Page Image 2: Specially designed Cassini orbits place Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation. Cassini conducted the first radio occultation observation of Saturn's rings on May 3, 2005. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute More Information: Cassini Mission Home Page