Candle in the Dark

Saturn’s rings cut across an eerie scene that is ruled by Titan’s luminous crescent and globe-encircling haze, broken by the small moon Enceladus, whose icy jets are dimly visible at its south pole. The scattered light around planet-sized Titan makes the moon’s solid surface visible in silhouette. Enceladus enjoys far clearer skies than its giant sibling moon.

The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 10, 2006 at a distance of approximately 3.9 million kilometers from Enceladus and 5.3 million kilometers from Titan.