NASA revealed today, that its Cassini probe has captured the first ever closeup pictures of Pan, Saturn's smallest moon, and they reveal an incredible shape that looks like a flying saucer.
The 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, NASA said.
Pan, the innermost of Saturn's known moons, has a mean radius of 8.8 miles (14.1 km) and orbits 83,000 miles (134,000 km) away from Saturn, within the Encke Gap of Saturn's A-ring, and just like Saturn's moon Atlas, it has a prominent equatorial ridge that gives it a distinctive flying saucer shape.
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The 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, NASA said.
Pan, the innermost of Saturn's known moons, has a mean radius of 8.8 miles (14.1 km) and orbits 83,000 miles (134,000 km) away from Saturn, within the Encke Gap of Saturn's A-ring, and just like Saturn's moon Atlas, it has a prominent equatorial ridge that gives it a distinctive flying saucer shape.
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Music licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/
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Audionautix: http://audionautix.com/
Twin Musicom: http://www.twinmusicom.org/
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