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Saturn's rings as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, as it passed within 103,000 km (64,000 miles) of the outermost ring, the F ring ( bottom). Above the F ring is a gap caused by the orbit of a small satellite. Following are three sections of the ring system visible from Earth[emdash]the A ring, Cassini division, and B ring. In the background is the fainter C ring.

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C ring

astronomy

Also known as: Crepe ring

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Saturn’s ring system

In Saturn: The ring system
…the third major ring, the C ring (sometimes known as the crepe ring), at 1.23 to 1.52 Saturn radii, with optical depths near 0.1. Interior to the C ring at 1.11 to 1.23 Saturn radii lies the extremely tenuous D ring, which has no measurable effect on starlight or radio…
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