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Spotting Prometheus (MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F-Rings.
Prometheus (86 Km, or about 53 miles across at its widest point) is on the side of the Rings closest to the Cassini Spacecraft in this view. The image looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 1° below the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 2, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1,1 MKM (such as about 660.000 miles) from Prometheus.
Image scale is roughly 6 Km (about 4 miles) per pixel".
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