Saturns famous rings are kept in place by the so-called sheppard-moons.

The line of Saturn's rings disrupts the Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan. The larger Titan 5.150 km across) is on the left. Tethys (1.062 km across) is near the center of the image. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing sides of Tethys and Titan. The angle also shows the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than one degree above the ring plane.

The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 7, 2011. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2,2 million km from Tethys and 3,1 million km from Titan. Image scale is 13km/pixel on Tethys and 19km/pixel on Titan.

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