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SPACE-US-CASSINI-PROMETHEUS
The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn's rings in this image released bby NASA on January 29, 2010 taken a short time before Saturn's August 2009 equinox. A long, thin shadow cast by the moon stretches across the A ring on the right. The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring, and the moon's handiwork can seen be on the left of the image. Prometheus is overexposed in this image. Bright specks in the image are background stars.This view looks toward the northern, 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 July 30, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn. AFP PHOTO/HO/NASA/JPL/SSI
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SATURN, SPACE |
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1 Februarie 2010 |
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