What would Saturn’s rings look like from the surface of the planet?
Since Saturn is a gaseous planet, it’s not possible to send any sort of spacecraft to the surface. However, several probes have performed flybys – the first being NASA’s Pioneer 11, which came within 13,048 miles of Saturn’s cloud tops. It passed under the ring planes, and images showed a reversal of what we see from Earth through a telescope: the rings looked dark and the gaps between them looked bright. This is probably because sunlight was passing through the gaps and not reflecting off the icy dust particles in the rings.