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Keywords: rings, Tethys, Saturn
![Кольца Сатурна с другой стороны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/06/26/0001206425/backview_cassini.preview.jpg)
22.06.2005
What do Saturn's rings look like from the other side? From Earth, we usually see Saturn's rings from the same side of the ring plane that the Sun illuminates them. Geometrically...
![Сатурн и его два спутника Тефия и Диона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179247/satmoons_vg1_big.preview.gif)
18.03.1996
Saturn and two of its larger moons - Tethys and Dione - were photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft which flew by the planet in November of 1980. This picture gives an indication of Saturn's extensive ring system, which can be seen casting a shadow on the planet, as does Tethys.
![Древние кратеры на спутнике Сатурна Рее](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/30/0001214314/rhea3_cassini.preview.jpg)
30.05.2006
Saturn's ragged moon Rhea has one of the oldest surfaces known. Estimated as changing little in the past billion years, Rhea shows craters so old they no longer appear round their edges have become compromised by more recent cratering.
![У Юпитера выявлены кольца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/17/0001177378/jupring1_gal.preview.jpg)
16.06.2002
Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons.
![Кольца Сатурна сбоку](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191205/saturn_24Apr_hst_big.preview.gif)
24.05.1997
Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6, 1995 when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops!
![Равноденствие на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/25/0001235894/equinoxrings_cassini.preview.jpg)
25.08.2009
What would Saturn's rings look like if the ring plane pointed directly at the Sun? That situation occurred earlier this month when equinox occurred on Saturn. Since the Earth is nearly in the same direction as the Sun from Saturn, the rings appeared to disappear from Earth.
![Кольца Сатурна с торца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/11/0001199077/saturn_24Apr_hst_big.preview.gif)
18.10.1998
Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6, 1995 when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops!
![Сатурн в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/12/0001196951/xraySaturn_cxc_c1.preview.jpg)
12.03.2004
Above, the ringed planet Saturn shines in x-rays. Otherwise beyond the range of human vision, the eerie x-ray view was created by overlaying a computer generated outline of the gas giant's disk and ring system on a false-color picture of smoothed, reconstructed x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory.
![Тонкие кольца Сатурна в поляризованном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/19/0001210481/thinring2_cassini.preview.jpg)
19.12.2005
How thin are the rings of Saturn? Brightness measurements from different angles have shown Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane.
![Сатурн в инфракрасном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/02/22/0001186889/saturn98_nicmos_c1.preview.jpg)
22.02.2003
This delightfully detailed false-color image of Saturn was taken in January 1998 by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a combination of three images from Hubble's NICMOS instrument and shows the lovely ringed planet in reflected infrared sunlight.
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