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Before Cassini's trek through the Saturnian system, popular models held that Pandora and Prometheus, two of Saturn's moons, created the F ring's bizarre, narrow structure with their gravitational ...
Saturn may be best known for its iconic rings, but the giant planet is also host to more than 53 moons, each one a fascinating and distinct world of its own.
Saturn has more than 50 moons, so you’d be forgiven for not remembering all of them. But one, Pandora, has just come into sharper view – and it looks pretty odd. New images of Pandora were ...
The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora remind us of how different they are when they appear together, as in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks ...
Saturn's moon Atlas got its flat, ravioli-like shape from the merging collision of two similar-size bodies, according to new research. Here, Atlas is shown mid-collision.
Saturn's moon Pandora is small, just 52 miles (84 kilometers) across, and orbits the planet from just outside the planet's slender F ring. The scale of Cassini's new image is 787 feet (240 meters ...
The five Saturn moons in Cassini's photo vary greatly in size, with Pandora (50 miles wide) and Janus (111 miles) the smallest. The "Death Star moon" Mimas measures 246 miles across and Enceladus ...
The tiny moon Pandora, right, outside Saturn's outermost ring, ... Snuggled close to Saturn, these innermost moons are small — Epimetheus, one of the largest, stretches just 72 miles across.
Saturn already had the most moons in the solar system and now it has 128 more. advertisement. ... Prometheus, and Pandora were discovered from images captured by the Voyager 1 space probe, ...
A natural-color view of Saturn as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft after more than 13 years of surveying the gas giant. Six of Saturn's moons—Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora and ...
And the number of Saturn's moons continues to grow with another new discovery added to the list by the same team just weeks later. ... Voyager also revealed the moons Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora.
Saturn's 62 moons range from overgrown rocks that are less than a half-mile wide to giant Titan, which is bigger than the planet Mercury. These pictures from the Cassini orbiter show off two ...