This is a picture taken by the robotic cassini spacecraft as it orbited saturn in 2006. When saturn eclipses the sun, its rings are lit up very brightly except for the part of the rings that are on the far side of saturn from the sun. New rings were able to be seen because of how bright they appeared. Saturn's E-ring is very visible and is created by the ice fountains of the nearby moon of Enceladus. One can see earth as a pale blue dot on the left.
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