{"id":7654,"date":"2017-03-13T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2017\/03\/13\/videotitle-77\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:23:52","slug":"saturns-moon-pan-from-cassini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Saturn\u2019s Moon Pan from Cassini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturn’s Moon Pan from Cassini<\/b>
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Why does Saturn’s moon Pan look so odd? Images taken last week from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have resolved the moon in unprecedented detail. The surprising images reveal a moon that looks something like a walnut with a slab through its middle. Other visible features on Pan include rolling terrain, long ridges, and a few craters. Spanning 30-kilometer across, Pan orbits inside the 300-kilometer wide Encke Gap of Saturn’s expansive A-ring, a gap known since the late 1800s. Next month, Cassini will be directed to pass near Saturn’s massive moon Titan so it can be pulled into a final series of orbits that will take it, on occasion, completely inside Saturn’s rings and prepare it to dive into Saturn’s atmosphere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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