Spotting Prometheus

 

The flattened, potato-like form of Prometheus glides silently within the

Roche Division, between Saturn's A and F rings.

 

 

Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across at its widest point) is on

the side of the rings closest to the Cassini spacecraft in this view. The

image looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about a degree below

the ringplane.

 

 

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft

narrow-angle camera on May 2, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of

approximately 1.1 million kilometers (660,000 miles) from Prometheus.

Image scale is 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.

 

 

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, D.C. 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

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team

homepage is at ciclops.org.

 

credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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