by bystander » Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:13 pm
NASA |
JPL-Caltech |
Cassini Solstice Mission |
CICLOPS | 2012 Aug 13
Atlas in the Distance
The Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's main rings to spy the tiny moon Atlas, which orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring.
The main rings are closer to the spacecraft than Atlas is, and the moon appears as only a small, white dot in the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
See
Atlas and the F Ring and
Saturn's Saucer Moons for other views of Atlas (19 miles, 30 kilometers across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 16, 2012. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 870,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) from Atlas. Image scale is 5 miles (8 kilometers) per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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The Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's main rings to spy the tiny moon Atlas, which orbits between the main rings and the thin F ring.
The main rings are closer to the spacecraft than Atlas is, and the moon appears as only a small, white dot in the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.
See [url=http://www.ciclops.org/view/2625][b]Atlas and the F Ring[/b][/url] and [url=http://www.ciclops.org/view/3937][b]Saturn's Saucer Moons[/b][/url] for other views of Atlas (19 miles, 30 kilometers across).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 16, 2012. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 870,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) from Atlas. Image scale is 5 miles (8 kilometers) per pixel.
[b][i]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute[/i][/b] [/quote]
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