This dramatic image shows Saturn's craggy moon Pandora skimming along the
F ring's outer edge.
Pandora orbits about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) exterior to the ring,
but in this view is projected onto the ring. The moderately
high-resolution of the image reveals the moonlet's odd shape. Pandora is
84 kilometers (52 miles) across.
The image was acquired from less than a degree below the ringplane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Oct. 29, 2005, at a distance of approximately
455,000 kilometers (283,000 miles) from Pandora. The image scale is 3
kilometers (2 miles) per pixel.
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 mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at
http://ciclops.org.