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[Telepathic Intruder]

...the most splendid ring system in the Solar System

...particle density of ring particles

I wonder how much editors for NASA get pai.

[SouthDixie]

Saturn is my fav planet...pluto is underated : (

[wastedyears]

That’s incredible

[Lancey Howard]

Wow!

[zeebee]

I wonder what the rings would look like if one were on the planet looking up.

[dr_lew]

The explanation mentions the backlighting and the shadows, but not the silhouetting effect. You can see that some of the bright rings become dark in silhouette, and vice versa, but not all of them. The thickest rings are dark in both views.

The Wikipedia article on Rings of Saturn has a similar Cassini photo from May 9, 2007, but with no silhouetting. However, if you click on it and click again for "full resolution" you get a really giant view which shows the fine structure of the rings. Sliding the horizontal bar gives me a dizzy feeling!