Cassini captures details of Saturn’s pock-marked moon Prometheus

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of Saturn’s tiny moon Prometheus that is just 86 kilometres in diameter.

Prometheus orbits Saturn just interior to the narrow F ring, which is seen here above the moon.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.

You can read more of Cosmos news coverage of the Cassini mission here.

 

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