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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