Splinters of Rings
Saturn shadow interrupts the planet rings, leaving just thin slivers of the rings visible in this image, which shows a pair of the planet small moons. Helene is in the center top of the image, Epimetheus is in the lower right.
- Date
- 2009-12-28
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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Credit line
"Splinters of Rings" (2009-12-28). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12514Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 84348.
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