The spacecraft photographed the planet's sunlit crescent, the ring shadows falling on the planet, and Saturn's dark hemisphere illuminated by "ringshine."
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Ringshine
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One, the ``dragon storm, is shown in Figure 5.28 (see color section), while another example, on Saturn's night side, but illuminated by ``ringshine (i.e., light reflected from Saturn's rings) is shown in Figure 5.29.
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Elephant juddered briefly, making the insertion burn, and then they were racing around the dark side of Saturn, faintly illuminated by the ghost light of ringshine.
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