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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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F ring

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Saturn’s ring system

In Saturn: The ring system
…A ring lies the narrow F ring at 2.33 Saturn radii. The F ring is a complicated structure that, according to Cassini observations, may be a tightly wound spiral. Between the A and F rings, distributed along the orbit of the inner moon Atlas, is a tenuous band of material…
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