Astronomy Photo of the Day

November 2:

Titan Beyond the Rings 
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: When orbiting Saturn, be sure to watch for breathtaking superpositions of moons and rings. One such picturesque vista was visible recently to the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. In 2006 April, Cassini captured Saturn's A and F rings stretching in front of cloud-shrouded Titan. Near the rings and appearing just above Titan was Epimetheus, a moon which orbits just outside the F ring. The dark space in the A ringis called the Encke Gap, although several thin knotted ringlets and even the small moon Pan orbit there.