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eclipsed saturn

Saturn eclipsing the sun, seen from behind from the Cassini orbiter. The image is a composite assembled from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 15 September, 2006.

Individual rings seen include (in order, starting from most distant):
- E ring
- Pallene ring (visible very faintly in an arc just below Saturn)
- G ring
- Janus/Epimetheus ring (faint)
- F ring (narrow brightest feature)
- Main rings (A,B,C)
- D ring (bluish, nearest Saturn)

For a detailed description, see http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=698

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