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Cassini Captures Another Stunning Saturnian Vista
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 15, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's small, battered moon Epimetheus; its giant, smog-enshrouded moon Titan, and its A and F rings stretching across the scene. The prominent dark region visible in the A ring is called the Encke Gap, in which the moon Pan and several narrow ringlets reside. Moon-driven features that mark the A ring are easily seen to the left and right of the Encke Gap, which is 325 kilometers (200 miles) wide. Pan is 26 kilometers (16 miles) across. In an optical illusion, the narrow F ring, outside the A ring, appears to fade across the disk of Titan. A couple of bright clumps can be seen in the F ring. Epimetheus is 116 kilometers (72 miles) across and Titan is 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) across. Cassini took the image on April 28 in visible light with its narrow-angle camera, at a distance of approximately 667,000 kilometers (415,000 miles) from Epimetheus and 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Titan. The image captures the illuminated side of the rings. The image scale is 4 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel on Epimetheus and 11 kilometers (7 miles) per pixel on Titan. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini Cassini Images Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
The Sands Of Titan
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 08, 2006New data from a recent radar-mapping pass over Titan by the Cassini spacecraft reveals Saturn's giant moon contains seas, but of sand dunes, like those of deserts on Earth, and not liquid methane or ethane. |
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