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Prometheus (Possible Natural Colors; credits: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"Appearing like eyes on a potato, craters cover the dimly lit Surface of the moon Prometheus in this HR image from the Cassini Spacecraft's early 2010 flyby.
The Jan. 27 encounter represented the closest imaging sequence yet of that moon for Cassini.
This view looks toward the Trailing Hemisphere of Prometheus (about 86 Km, or approx. 53 miles across). North on Prometheus is up and rotated 8° to the right.
The moon is lit by Sunlight on the right and Saturnshine on the left.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 27, 2010. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 34.000 Km (about 21.000 miles) from Prometheus and at a Sun-Prometheus-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 126°.
Image scale is roughly 200 meters (656 feet) per pixel".
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