Stunning

What an image. As one of my good friends says, it doesn't look real. It seems as if from a movie, or an artist's conception. The mind, unfamiliar with the outer reaches of the solar system, retreats to what it is more familiar with...invented images. Saturn and its lovely rings seen from above, image taken by the Cassini satellite. Oh, Cassini? Well, he was a mathematician and astronomer born in the 17th century. You can read about him at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini

And you can read so much more about the Cassini satellite and its mission of exploration of Saturn, and you can enjoy a ton of other amazing photos.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/index.html