Image: PIA12684 F Ring
Description: Cassini spacecraft image of Prometheus, one of Saturn's small inner moons, interacting with the F ring. Saturn's moon Prometheus, having perturbed the planet's thin F ring, moves away as it continues in its orbit. The gravity of potato-shaped Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring, and the moon's handiwork can be seen in the dark channels here. To learn more and to watch a movie of this process, see PIA08397. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about 10 degrees above the ringplane. A star is visible through the rings near the center right of the image. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 1, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (808,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 7 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel. The original NASA image has been modified by rotating, cropping, increasing brightness, and doubling the linear pixel density.
Title: PIA12684 F Ring
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12684 http://www.ciclops.org/view/6411/Fleeing_the_Scene This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA12684. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Català | Čeština | Deutsch | English | Español | فارسی | Français | Galego | Magyar | Հայերեն | Bahasa Indonesia | Italiano | 日本語 | Македонски | മലയാളം | Polski | Português | Русский | Türkçe | 中文 | 中文（简体） | +/−
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