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Pan
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Caption NASA:"Pan is seen in this color view as it sweeps through the Encke Gap with its attendant ringlets. As the lemon-shaped little moon orbits Saturn, it always keeps its long axis pointed along a line toward the Planet. From this vantage point, the dark side of the moon is visible.
This view looks toward Pan (26 Km or 16 miles across) within the Encke Gap (325 Km or 200 miles wide), on the unlit side of the Rings, and from an inclination of about 33° above the Ring-Plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 16, 2006 at a distance of approx. 779.000 Km (about 484.000 miles) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft, or phase angle of 83°.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (a little more than 3 miles) per pixel".
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