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Pandora and the F-Ring
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Caption NASA originale:"The shepherd moon, Pandora, is seen here alongside the narrow F-Ring that it helps maintain in the right equlibrium.
Cassini obtained this view from about 4° above the ringplane. Captured here are several faint, dusty ringlets in the vicinity of the F-Ring core.
The ringlets do not appear to be perturbed to the degree seen in the core.
The appearance of Pandora here is exciting, as the moon's complete shape can be seen, thanks to reflected light from Saturn, which illuminates Pandora's dark side; also the hint of a crater is visible on the dark side of the moon.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 4, 2005, at a distance of approx. 967.000 Km (such as approx. 601.000 miles) from Pandora and at a Sun-Pandora-spacecraft angle of 117°. The image scale is 6 Km per pixel".
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