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Inside "Encke"...
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Caption NASA originale:"Hiding within the Encke Gap is the small moon Pan, partly in shadow and party cut off by the outer A-Ring in this view. Similar to Atlas, Pan appears to have a slight ridge around its middle; and like Atlas, Pan's orbit also coincides with a faint ringlet. Pan is 26 Km(about 16 miles) across.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 30, 2006 at a distance of approximately 269.000 Km (such as about 167.000 miles) from Pan. Image scale is roughly 2 Km(approx. 5.259 feet) per pixel".
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