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Herding Saturn's rings
CASSINI PHOTO RELEASE
Posted: September 26, 2004

Saturn's moon Prometheus is seen shepherding the inner edge of Saturn's F ring. Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across and was captured in a close-up view by the Cassini spacecraft near the time of orbital insertion at Saturn. A number of clumps are visible here along the arcing F ring.


Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera at a distance of 8.2 million kilometers (5.1 million miles) from Saturn through a filter sensitive to visible green light. The image scale is 49 kilometers (33 miles) per pixel. Contrast was slightly enhanced to aid visibility.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras, were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

1 posted on 09/28/2004 8:01:44 AM PDT by petuniasevan
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2 posted on 09/28/2004 8:06:14 AM PDT by petuniasevan (A rumor is about as hard to unspread as butter.)
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To: petuniasevan

Beautiful! I only saw an aurora once.


3 posted on 09/28/2004 8:26:48 AM PDT by formercalifornian (Daschle: "Never has so much clout" enriched the abortion industry)
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To: petuniasevan

The aurora is hard to photograph and do it justice. We had a display that looked like a rotating rope a few days ago. Very bright, very lively.


4 posted on 09/28/2004 10:04:09 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: petuniasevan

Thanks-- beautiful shot.


7 posted on 09/28/2004 6:08:49 PM PDT by Cedar
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