Put a ring on it: Nasa spacecraft captures Saturn's rings 'slicing through' two of its moons

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has orbited the planet Saturn since 2004, studying the planet, its mysterious moons, and its rings of tiny particles of ice.



The orbiter captured an image directly 'across' Saturn's rings in front of the moons Tethys and Titan, showing the sides of the moons faced inwards towards the planet.



The large moon, Titan, a cloud-shrouded orb 3,200 miles across, is on the left. Tethys, just 660 miles across, is on the right. This view was captured by a visible-light camera on board Nasa's Cassini orbiter

The large moon, Titan, a cloud-shrouded orb 3,200 miles across, is on the left.



Tethys, just 660 miles across, is on the right.

This view looks toward the Saturn-facing sides of Tethys and Titan. The angle also shows the northern, sunlit side of the rings - huge planes of ice floating in space around Saturn.

Cassini captured this image of Tethys - the smaller moon, just 660 miles across - floating just under Saturn's rings in front of the planet

The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on December 7 last year.



The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles from Tethys and 1.9 million miles from Titan.

