Moons Beyond the Rings of Saturn

Saturn's rings occupy the foreground of this image. The small moon Janus appears to hover above, while the far larger moon Rhea is partially obscured by the rings.
Janus appears to be located directly over the rings, but the moon is actually further away, at a range of about 1.1 million kilometers from the Cassini spacecraft. Rhea is 1.6 million kilometers from the spacecraft. This view looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Janus (179 kilometers across) and the Saturn-facing side of Rhea (1,528 kilometers across).
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft camera on April 8, 2010. Image scale is 7 kilometers per pixel on Janus and 10 kilometers per pixel on Rhea.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.