This shot of Saturn’s rings was taken by the Cassini spacecraft using its narrow-angle camera on 2 July 2016 from a distance of roughly 1.4 million kilometres.
You can see the tiny moon Pan in the black band which has bumped and jostled a clear gap in the planet’s rings.
Originally published by Cosmos as Mind the gap
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