Trailing Prometheus

 

Saturn's F ring displays magnificent structure following the passage of

Prometheus. Atlas (32 kilometers, or 20 miles across) is seen between the

A and F rings, above center.

 

 

This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 28

degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the

Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 23, 2008. The view was

acquired at a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1

million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle

of 41 degrees. Image scale is 10 kilometers (6 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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