Cassini Orbiter - Views 5 Moons from the 'ISS' Narrow Angle Camera

            
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On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn's moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera. This is a full-colour look at a view that was originally published in September 2011 (see PIA14573).

Moons visible in this view: Janus (111 miles, or 179 kilometres across) is on the far left; Pandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometres across) orbits just beyond the thin F ring near the centre of the image; brightly reflective Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometres across) appears above centre; Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea (949 miles, or 1,528 kilometres across), is bisected by the right edge of the image; and the smaller moon Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometres across) is seen just to the left of Rhea.

This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring-plane. Rhea is closest to Cassini here. The rings are beyond Rhea and Mimas. Enceladus is beyond the rings. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 684,000 miles (1.1 million kilometres) from Rhea and 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometres) from Enceladus.

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.

Taken on: November 18, 2021

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