• Cassini Sees 'Flying-Saucer' Moon Atlas Up Close

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    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6813

    Cassini Sees 'Flying-Saucer' Moon Atlas Up Close
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    April 13, 2017

    These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon, Atlas, were taken on April
    12, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach
    distance of about 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers).

    These images are the closest ever taken of Atlas and will help to characterize its shape and geology. Atlas (19 miles, or 30 kilometers across) orbits
    Saturn just outside the A ring -- the outermost of the planet's bright,
    main rings.

    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.

    More information about Cassini:

    http://www.nasa.gov/cassini

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

    News Media Contact
    Preston Dyches
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
    818-394-7013
    preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov

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