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Pandora, from about 2 MKM
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Caption NASA:"Less intrusive than her sibling shepherd moon (Prometheus), Pandora nonetheless provides a gravitational influence that helps confine and perturb the F-Ring's shape.
Also notable here is the brightness of the region of the outer A-Ring which lies outside the very narrow Keeler Gap. This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 38° above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 16, 2006 at a distance of approx. 2 MKM (about 1,2 MMs) from Pandora and at a Sun-Pandora-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 157°. Image scale is roughly 12 Km (about 7 miles) per pixel".
Nota: nell'inset, Pandora da poco meno di 52.000 Km di distanza
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