[meteorite-list] Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201703202014.v2KKEI0v002091_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6770

Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 9, 2017

[Images]
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on
March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach
distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles).

These images are the closest images ever taken of Pan and will help to
characterize its shape and geology.

Additional raw images from Cassini are available at:

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/raw-images

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European
Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for the agency's Science
Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini imaging operations center
is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Caltech
in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

For more information about Cassini, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini

and

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

News Media Contact
Preston Dyches
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-7013
preston.dyches at jpl.nasa.gov


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