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Oh, and why the first picture looks so lame is because the shots are taken from the dark side of Saturn from within the shadow it casts behind it.
The lens looking aspect is the light from the sun lit side being bent around behind the plant by total internal reflection caused by the planet's atmosphere.
Because the planet is a gas giant none of the atmosphere has much distinction and because it's the dark side it's just a big grayish....slide projector screen that the rings (that are not in shadow) can 'project' their reflected light down onto.
Because the projected ring image is projecting down from a different angle than the photos are taken from they don't seem to match up with actual rings and indeed the projected image does not.
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