Ringside

Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Dione and the other icy saturnian moons
have a perpetual ringside view of the gorgeous gas giant planet. Of course,
while passing through the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their
stunning perspective. The rings themselves can be seen slicing across the bottom
of this Cassini snapshot. Remarkably thin, the bright rings still cast arcing
shadows across the planet's cloud tops. Pale Dione, in the foreground, is about
1,100 kilometers across and orbits over 300,000 kilometers from the visible outer
edge of the A ring.