A pair of Saturn's small moons orbit near the planet's rings, which appear well illuminated in this Cassini spacecraft view.
Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles across) is near the center of the image and is farther than the rings from Cassini. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) is on the left. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 17, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from Janus and Pandora. Image scale is 16 kilometers (10 miles) per pixel.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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