Wrekking a Two Tonner: Instagram favs - Criss-crossed view: Rings in front of #Saturn cast shadows in this photo by #Cassini. At first glance, Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting themselves in an impossible way. In actuality, this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the rings in front of the planet, upon which the shadow of the rings is cast. And because rings like the A ring and Cassini Division, which appear in the foreground, are not entirely opaque, the disk of Saturn and those ring shadows can be seen directly through the rings themselves. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 85 degrees. Image scale is 6 miles (10 km) per pixel. #space #science #planets #NASA #ESA #JPL #photography #blackandwhite #NASABeyond