Saturnian Shadowplay

I love Cassini shots of Saturn that make me do a double-take. The image above (taken on Feb. 11, 2016) is a little confusing, isn't it? It took me a second to figure it out, but then it clicked into place. What you're seeing is a narrow-angle shot of Saturn's rings (seen as the lines going from slightly upper left to lower right). The rings aren't opaque, but actually translucent. In this show we can see through them to the cloud tops of Saturn below, where the rings are casting a shadow (the fa...