Pandora and the F-Ring

This dramatic image shows Saturn's craggy (---> rocciosa, colma di dirupi) moon Pandora skimming (to skim---> rasentare, sfiorare) along the F-Ring's outer edge.
Pandora orbits about 1.000 Km (approx. 620 miles) exterior to the Ring, but, in this view, is projected onto the Ring.
The moderately high-resolution of the image reveals the moonlet's odd shape.
The image was acquired from less than 1 degree below the Ring-Plane and taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2005, at a distance of approx. 455.000 Km (roughly 283.000 miles) from Pandora. The image scale is 3 Km (about 2 miles) per pixel.