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Atlas, from 489.000 Km
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Original caption:"The 'flying saucer' in this image is the small moon Atlas (20 Km or about 12 miles across), whose shadowy profile reveals its flattened shape. This image looks down onto the outer A-Ring and through the Encke and Keeler Gaps.
Two distinct, thin strands in the F-Ring are visible here, silhouetted against the Planet. Saturn's extended, high-altitude haze is seen near lower right.
The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 2, 2005, at a distance of approx. 489.000 Km (such as about 304.000 miles) from Atlas and at a Sun-Atlas-spacecraft angle of 138°. The image scale is 3 Km (about 2 miles) per pixel".
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