Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as the northern hemisphere advances toward summer, thanks to the planet's permanent tilt as it orbits the sun. This will continue until the solstice later this month. Then, the shadow will extend only as far as the innermost A ring.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 3, 2017. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 760,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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