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More "Streamers" on sight!
A shepherd moon can do more to define ring structures than just keep the flock of particles in line, as Cassini spacecraft images such as this have shown. 
Prometheus is seen here with two long streamers of material that it has pulled out of the F-Ring. When Prometheus comes close to the F-Ring in its orbit, the moon's gravity tugs on the ring particles. The disturbed particles, now pulled into orbits slightly closer to Saturn and therefore faster, shear out during successive orbits, creating the long and delicate streamers seen here. 

This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 31° above the Ring-Plane. 

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 29, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (a little more than 1 MMs) from Prometheus and at a Sun-Prometheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 160°. 
Image scale is roughly 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel.
Parole chiave: Saturn's Rings - The "F" Ring

More "Streamers" on sight!

A shepherd moon can do more to define ring structures than just keep the flock of particles in line, as Cassini spacecraft images such as this have shown.
Prometheus is seen here with two long streamers of material that it has pulled out of the F-Ring. When Prometheus comes close to the F-Ring in its orbit, the moon's gravity tugs on the ring particles. The disturbed particles, now pulled into orbits slightly closer to Saturn and therefore faster, shear out during successive orbits, creating the long and delicate streamers seen here.

This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 31° above the Ring-Plane.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 29, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (a little more than 1 MMs) from Prometheus and at a Sun-Prometheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 160°.
Image scale is roughly 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel.

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Nome album:Saturn: the "Ringed Beauty" and His Moons
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Parole chiave:Saturn's / Rings / - / The / "F" / Ring
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