The mysterious F ring, wide-angle view

This wide-angle camera image of Saturn's rings was taken after the successful completion of the orbit insertion burn when the spacecraft had crossed the ring plane and was looking upwards at the sunlit face of the rings.

The image shows details of the mysterious F ring that lies at a distance of approximately 140 200 kilometres from Saturn.

Cassini-Huygens was approximately 157 000 kilometres above the ring plane when the images were obtained. Image scale in the wide-angle camera image is approximately 9 kilometres per pixel.