Ringside

Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings , Dione and the other icy saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gorgeous gas giant planet. Of course, while passing through the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective . The rings themselves can be seen slicing across the bottom of this Cassini snapshot . Remarkably thin , the bright rings still cast arcing shadows across the planet's cloud tops. Pale Dione , in the foreground, is about 1,100 kilometers across and orbits over 300,000 kilometers from the visible outer edge of the A ring.