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Atlas and a few Stars
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Caption NASA:"Atlas is seen in this image with several background stars as the moon orbits within the Roche Division — the Region between Saturn's A and F-Rings.
Atlas (about 30 Km, or approx. 19 miles across) is in the top left quadrant of the image.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 65° below the Ring-Plane. The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 23, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 913.000 Km (about 567.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 105°.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (a little more than 3 miles) per pixel".
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