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Brothers in the Night: Atlas & Pan
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Caption NASA:"Atlas and Pan emerge from the Far Side of Saturn.
Light passing through the upper reaches of the Planet's Atmosphere is refracted, or bent, distorting the image of the Rings beyond.
Pan (about 26 Km, or 16 miles across) is seen within the Encke Gap. Atlas (about 32 Km, or 20 miles across) orbits just beyond the outer edge of Saturn's A-Ring.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 12° above the Ring-Plane. Shadows cast by the Rings arc across the Planet toward the Cassini spacecraft.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 12, 2007 at a distance of approx. 1,6 MKM (about 1 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 10 Km (a little more than 6 miles) per pixel".
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