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Before Cassini's journey through the Saturnian system, popular opinion held that Pandora and Prometheus, two of Saturn's moons, teamed up, creating the F ring's unique shape and orbit.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn has captured the best photo yet of the planet's small, cratered moon Pandora. Cassini took the new Pandora photo earlier this month from a ...
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 five Saturn moons in Cassini's photo vary greatly in size, with Pandora (50 miles wide) and Janus (111 miles) the smallest.
Saturn's moons Prometheus, Pandora and Epimetheus can be seen among the planet's rings in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. New views of Pan, Dasphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus have ...
Saturn's moons Prometheus, Pandora and Epimetheus can be seen among the planet's rings in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. New views of Pan, Dasphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus have ...
Saturn already had the most moons in the solar system and now it has 128 more.
This image shows the rare sight of Saturn’s moons Mimas and Pandora aligning in the night sky—and they couldn’t look more different. Seeing them both together makes you realise just how ...
I am endlessly fascinated by the endless combination of moons and rings the Cassini spacecraft sees as it orbits Saturn. Because the moons all orbit Saturn in the same plane, the geometry of the ...
Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system.
Saturn's striking rings are probably its most recognizable feature—and they're not just for show. These rings seem to have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the planet's tiniest moons.