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curiousuburb
Antimatter Man
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
 
2004-05-24, 23:03

Pandora, Prometheus and Epimetheus Near F Ring

Two of Saturn's moon's Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) and Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), are seen here shepherding the planet's narrow F-ring. Prometheus overtakes Pandora in orbit around Saturn about every 25 days. Slightly above the pair and to the right is another moon, Epimetheus (116 kilometers, or 72 miles across). The image was taken with the narrow angle camera on the Cassini spacecraft on May 1, 2004, at a distance of 31.4 million kilometers (19.5 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 187 kilometers (116 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified and greatly contrast-enhanced to aid visibility. from here

there are some animations and videos online, in addition to the awesome Flash I linked above,

Also worth linking, perhaps Ciclops... the Cassini Imager Home Page. Treklike Blog and all.

Anybody with educational interest, kids, or origamiphilia will want to check the Products page.
down at the bottom are two downloadable models in PDF form.
1/40 scale
or 1/37 scale (with detachable Huygens probe!)

each download is under 200k zipped

*loads printer*
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