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Saturn's inner C ring spreads across the field of view, showing the characteristic plateau and wave-like structure for which it is famed.
The centre of this image shows an area approximately 75 000 kilometres from Saturn. The dark gap through the middle of the frame is the Colombo gap which houses the bright, narrow, eccentric Colombo ringlet, in resonance with the moon Titan.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on 29 October 2004, at a distance of about 842 000 kilometres from Saturn. The image scale is 4.7 kilometres per pixel.