it turned back from the planet to point its cameras at Saturn's moon Pandora and the faint F ring. Before Cassini's trek through the Saturnian system, popular models held that Pandora and ...

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 ...

The image, which NASA released Wednesday, shows Saturn's moons Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea. The planet's rings are beyond Rhea and Mimas, while bright Enceladus appears behind the rings.

Saturn's 146 moons were more than the total number of ... In 1980, Atlas, Prometheus, and Pandora were discovered from images captured by the Voyager 1 space probe, with further discoveries ...

Pandora: Discovered in October 1980 by the ... As such, it has been dubbed the yin and yang of the Saturn moons. Iapetus, like Rhea, is thought to be composed of ice and rock.

The odd shapes of Saturn's inner moons ... Considering the six inner moons Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Janus and Epimetheus, the first three display these features, while the others ...

Six of Saturn's moons—Enceladus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora and Prometheus—make a faint appearance in this image. (Numerous stars are also visible in the background.) But this week ...

In the ghostly image above, captured by NASA’s Cassini mission, you can see two members of Saturn’s massive moon family -- Mimas and Pandora -- glowing brightly above Saturn’s smooth gray rings.

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 ...

Saturn's rings and five of its moons, as captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2011. The five moons, from left to right, are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space ...

Pan and Pandora are distinctive among Saturn’s many satellites. By Nadia Drake Saturn has more than 60 moons, but a handful of them do more than spangle the planet’s skies. Snuggled close to ...

Voyager also revealed the moons Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora. Even so, the vast majority of Saturn's moons were discovered relatively recently, since the year 2000. One reason for this is that ...