Image:Four Saturnian moons PIA07644.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Summary

Original Caption Released with Image:

In a rare moment, the Cassini spacecraft captured this enduring portrait of a near-alignment of four of Saturn's restless moons. Timing is critical when trying to capture a view of multiple bodies, like this one. All four of the moons seen here were on the far side of the rings from the spacecraft when this image was taken; and about an hour later, all four had disappeared behind Saturn.

Seen here are Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) and Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) at bottom; Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) hugs the rings at center; Telesto (24 kilometers, or 15 miles across) is a mere speck in the darkness above centre.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini narrow-angle camera on Oct. 17, 2005 at a distance of approximately 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles) from Dione and 2.5 million kilometers (1.6 million miles) from Titan. The image scale is 16 kilometers (10 miles) per pixel on Dione and 21 kilometers (13 miles) per pixel on Titan.

Licensing

Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.
Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamps published by the United States Postal Service after 1987. (See 206.02(b) of Compendium II: Copyright Office Practices).

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
current 19:12, 3 December 2005 962×877 (30 KB) Kwamikagami ( Talk | contribs) ('''Original Caption Released with Image:''' In a rare moment, the Cassini spacecraft captured this enduring portrait of a near-alignment of four of Saturn's restless moons. Timing is critical when trying to capture a view of multiple bodies, like this on)

    See the setup instructions for more information.

The following file is a duplicate of this file:

The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Four_Saturnian_moons_PIA07644.jpg"
The Schools Wikipedia is sponsored by SOS Children , and is mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes (see www.wikipedia.org for details of authors and sources). See also our Disclaimer.