Cassini spacecraft provides more stunning images of Saturn, including two small moons
OCT 04, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210140
Daily Mail : A new image captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows two of Saturn’s tiny moons, Pan and Atlas. Because Pan orbits closer to Saturn, it travels more quickly, and it now is in the process of overtaking Atlas. The image was taken in visible light by the spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera from a distance of some 5.5 million km at a scale of 34 km per pixel. Besides the two moons, Cassini has sent back other spectacular images, including that of a mysterious glowing spot in Saturn’s B ring. The spot is actually an optical illusion produced when the Sun shines from behind the spacecraft and onto the rings.
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