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\nThe F ring shepherd Pandora is captured here along with other well-known examples of how Saturn\u2019s moons shape the rings. From the narrow F ring, to the gaps in the A ring, to the Cassini Division, Saturn’s rings are a masterpiece of gravitational sculpting by the moons.\n<\/p>\n
\nPandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometers across), along with its fellow shepherd Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across), helps confine the F ring and keep it from spreading.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 31 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 8, 2014.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe view was obtained at a distance of approximately 533,000 miles (858,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 63 degrees. Image scale is 32 miles (51 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.\n<\/p>\n
\nFor more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a> or http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini<\/a> .\n<\/p>\n \nThe Cassini imaging team homepage is at http:\/\/ciclops.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t \nThe F ring shepherd Pandora is captured here along with other well-known examples of how Saturn\u2019s moons shape the rings. From the narrow F ring, to the gaps in the A ring, to the Cassini Division, Saturn’s rings are a masterpiece of gravitational sculpting by the moons.\n<\/p>\n \nPandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometers across), along with its fellow shepherd Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across), helps confine the F ring and keep it from spreading.\n<\/p>\n \nThis view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 31 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 8, 2014.\n<\/p>\n \nThe view was obtained at a distance of approximately 533,000 miles (858,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 63 degrees. Image scale is 32 miles (51 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.\n<\/p>\n \nThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.\n<\/p>\n \nThe Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.\n<\/p>\n \nFor more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a> or http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini<\/a> .\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n