Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus reveals its elongated, irregular form to
Cassini in this image. The moon's long axis points toward Saturn.
Prometheus is 102 kilometers (63 miles) across.
This view shows the southern part of the moon's anti-Saturn side (the
face that always points away from Saturn).
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 7, 2005, at a distance of approximately
438,000 kilometers (272,000 miles) from Prometheus. Resolution in the
original image was 3 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel. The image has been
contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of two 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 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 team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage http://ciclops.org.