Two of Saturn's small moons orbiting beyond the planet's rings

Two of Saturn's small moons can be seen orbiting beyond the planet's thin F ring in this Cassini spacecraft image.



Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) is on the left, and Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) is on the right. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. Both moons are closer to Cassini than are the rings. Pandora is slightly closer to Cassini than Epimetheus here.

The image was taken in visible l [...]

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