Monday, December 14, 2015

Cassini's not done yet


Though it's near the end of its spectacular mission, the NASA Cassini probe is not done sending back spectacular images of Saturn.   Here's a close-up of Prometheus, a small moon that will always be just a speck in Earth-based telescopes.

























As this article describes, it also got a great view of Epimetheus, another in Saturn's family.


See Prometheus in all its glory: Close-up image reveals the bizarre pockmarked surface of Saturn's 'potato moon'

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