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Atlas: Ring-Master or Prisoner of the Rings?
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Caption NASA originale:"Saturn's little moon Atlas orbits Saturn between the outer edge of the A-Ring and the fascinating, twisted, F-Ring. This image just barely resolves the disk of Atlas and also shows some of the knotted structure for which the F-Ring is known. Atlas is 32 Km (about 20 miles) across. The bright outer edge of the A-Ring is overexposed here, but farther down the image several bright ring features can be seen. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 25, 2005, at a distance of approx. 2, 4 MKM (about 1,5 MMs) from Atlas and at a Sun-Atlas-Spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60°. Resolution in the original image was 14 Km (approx. 9 miles) per pixel".
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