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Other "Brothers in the Night": Pan and Pandora
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini spacecraft skims past Saturn's Ring-Plane at a low angle, spotting two ring moons on the far side.
Pan (26 Km, or about 16 miles across) sits within the Encke Gap right of center. Beyond the F-Ring hovers Pandora (84 Km, or approx. 52 miles across).
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from less than 1° above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 14, 2007 at a distance of approx. 1,6 MKM (about 1 MMs) from Saturn. Image scale is roughly 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel".
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