Four Moons!
Four small moons of Saturn are visible in this Cassini image. Click for a larger version. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Cassini is nonetheless out there carrying out good work, here’s one the latest releases.
The Cassini internet site caption:
A quartet of Saturn’s moons are shown with a sliver from the rings on this Cassini spacecraft look at.
From left to correct in this picture are Epimetheus (1ǭ kilometers, or 70 miles across), Janus (179 kilometers, or 111 miles throughout), Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) and Atlas (30 kilometers, or 19 miles throughout)!
This perspective looks toward the northern, sunlit side of your rings from just above the ringplane.
The picture was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 27, 2010. The perspective was obtained at a distance of roughly 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) from Janus, Prometheus and Atlas. The perspective was obtained at a distance of roughly 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Epimetheus. Picture scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel on Janus, Prometheus and Atlas. Picture scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel on Epimetheus.
