[meteorite-list] Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201109162243.p8GMhBdX000610_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-294

Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 16, 2011

With the artistry of a magazine cover shoot, NASA's Cassini spacecraft
captured this portrait of five of Saturn's moons poised along the
planet's rings.

>From left to right are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and finally
Rhea, bisected by the right side of the frame. The view was acquired at
a distance of approximately 684,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) from
Rhea and 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from Enceladus.

The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on July 29, 2011. Image scale is about 4 miles (7
kilometers) per pixel on Rhea and 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel on
Enceladus.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were
designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center
is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at
http://ciclops.org .

For more news and images via social media, follow Cassini on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/cassinisaturn .

Rosemary Sullivant
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
rosemary.sullivant at jpl.nasa.gov

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