Two small moons appear as specks racing across the face of Saturn, as seen by the
Cassini orbiter.
Janus, 111 miles (179 km) in diameter,
appears above the rings near center, while the
smaller Pandora has a diameter of 50 miles (81 km) and appears to the left of
Janus. Both moons orbit above the planet’s icy rings, which cast dark shadows onto
the planet’s clouds below.
Cassini
took this image 683,000 miles (1.1 million km) from Saturn. The spacecraft will
investigate Saturn and its moons further over the next
two years as part of its extended mission.
— NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute and SPACE.com
Staff
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space
Science Institute
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