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Cassini, the robotic emissary flying high above Saturn, captured this view of an alien copper-colored ring world. The overexposed planet has deliberately been removed to show the unlit rings alone, seen from an elevation of 60°, the highest Cassini has yet attained. The view is a mosaic of 27 images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on 21 January 2007, over the course of about 45 minutes and at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers from Saturn. Image scale is 90 kilometers per pixel. The planet's shadow carves a dark swath across the ring plane at the right. Several moons of Saturn are also visible in this image Epimetheus (116 kilometers across) at the 1 o'clock position, Pandora (84 kilometers across) at the 5 o'clock position, Janus (181 kilometers across) at the 10 o'clock position. Bright clumps of material in the narrow F ring moved in their orbits between each of the color exposures, creating a chromatic misalignment that provides some sense of the...