June 8th, 2017: Cassini

[xoxoxoBruce]

The third picture at the link says...

At first glance, Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting themselves in an impossible way. In actuality, this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the rings in front of the planet, upon which the shadow of the rings is cast. And because rings like the A ring and Cassini Division, which appear in the foreground, are not entirely opaque, the disk of Saturn and those ring shadows can be seen directly through the rings themselves. The tiny moon Pan (17 miles or 28 kilometers across) can be seen here near image center. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on February 11, 2016, at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) from Pan.

What? You can see Pan, only 17 miles in across, looking through the ring, from 1.2 million miles away? That shit just blows my mind. I can't get my head around that concept. It's like taking one frame out of a Micheal Bay film.