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Cassini spacecraft close-up of Saturn's moon Pandora



This recent image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora. Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn which was discovered in 1980 from photos taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft and it is only 84 kilometers across orbiting Saturn just outside the narrow F ring. 

The spacecraft captured the image during its closest-ever flyby of Pandora on December 18, 2016, during the third of its grazing passes by the outer edges of Saturn's main rings. The image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 40,500 kilometers from Pandora. Image scale is 240 meters per pixel.



Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, Wikipedia
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