Scene Seen in the Near-Infrared

Cassini's camera looks in near-infrared light at a dramatic view of Saturn, its ringplane and the shadows of a couple of its moons.The large shadow south of the equator is that of the moon Tethys (1062 kilometers, 660 miles across). The small shadow near the limb of the planet, north of the equator, is the shadow of the moon Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across).Saturn's northern and southern