8 stunning images of Saturn Rings captured by NASA

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this beautiful image of Saturn Rings

Cassini spacecraft scanned across Saturn and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings.

Saturn’s rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (meters) across.

This image was captured by a especially designed Cassini orbits placed Earth and Cassini on opposite sides of Saturn's rings, a geometry known as occultation, on May 3, 2005.

In the 400 years since Galileo's discovery, the rings have become Saturn’s telltale feature and are perhaps the most recognized characteristic of any world in our solar system.

Saturn's icy rings can be seen in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft when it was 450,000 miles (725,000 kilometers) away from the planet.

This view focuses on Saturn's C-ring (and to a lesser extent, the B-ring at top and left) was compiled from three separate images taken through ultraviolet, clear and green filters.

Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers (8 million miles).

Credit: NASA