For immediate release This false-colour photo shows some of the inner moons around Saturn.
North is up and East is to the left.
At this time the Earth was slightly below the ring plane and the Sun was slightly above it, so that the dark side of the rings was visible. Each frame has a width of 10.4 arcsec. The halo to the left is caused by sunlight scattered from Saturn. The lower panel is again of the Western ansa, about 12 hours before the moment of the ring plane crossing. The right frame was obtained by subtracting a mirror-inverted image of the Eastern ansa.