Golden Rings and Icy Moons

Posted on 29 January 2008 by catholicsensibility

They’re really not golden. This is a natural color image taken from the dark side of the rings. Where they are bright, you see more sunlight poking through. That dark middle section is the most dense portion of the Saturnian rings. A few icy moons orbit in the distance: Enceladus at the top, then Pandora and Mimas on the lower right.

About catholicsensibility

Todd lives in Minnesota, serving a Catholic parish as a lay minister.
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