December 23, 2012
Raw wide-angle Cassini image of Saturn’s rings (NASA/JPL/SSI) Recently I posted an image of two of Saturn’s shepherd moons, Pandora and Prometheus, captured by Cassini in a face-off across the spindly F ring. Now here’s a much wider-angle view of the gas giant’s rings, seen by Cassini two days later on December 20, and the same [...]
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December 21, 2012
Raw Cassini image acquired on Dec. 18, 2012 (NASA/JPL/SSI) Two of Saturn’s shepherd moons face off across the icy strand of the F ring in this image, acquired by the Cassini spacecraft on December 18, 2012. In the left corner is Pandora, external shepherd of the ropy ring, and in the right is Prometheus, whose [...]
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