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Pandora in orbit

pandora and saturn's outer rings
"Pandora is seen in this dramatic view, orbiting just beyond the outer edge of Saturn's F ring. Pandora is 84 kilometers across. Several bright areas are visible within the F ring. In the main rings, the Keeler gap and the Encke gap, [the latter] with a bright ringlet, are also visible.

"The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers. The image scale is 7 kilometers per pixel."