SATURN B Ring

Saturn B Ring

Cassini continues its space exploration sending extraordinary images from Saturn's rings.

Here we see a glorious B ring with its dense layers and various structures which have been one of the subjects which scientists have been looking up to.

Saturn's B ring is the densest and most massive of all the rings. The C ring is also visible inside the B ring and the A ring puts on an appearance beyond the Cassini Division near the top and bottom of the image.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 22, 2012.

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 201,000 miles (324,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 134 degrees. Image scale is 10 miles (16 kilometers) per pixel.   from here