You've met Saturn's ravioli-shaped moon, Pan.… | The Planetary Society

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently obtained the first closeup images of Saturn's innermost moon, Pan. The images show a peculiar body shaped like a "flying saucer". Pan occupies a unique position in the rings, at the center of the 300-km wide Encke Gap. As best we can tell, Pan probably started its life as a more spherical moon, but it ...

Welcome to Pan: Saturn's Ravioli-Shaped Moon - Sky & Telescope

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Appropriately named after the half-man, half-goat satyr from Greek mythology, Pan is nestled in the Encke (pronounced EN-key) Gap within Saturn's A ring. NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew just 15,268 miles past the moonlet (closer than the distance to the geosynchronous satellites from Earth) on March 7th. "Nearing its end, Cassini delights ...

Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan - Science@NASA

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The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles). This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Pan was taken on March 7, 2017 by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These images are the closest images ever taken of Pan and will help to characterize its shape and geology.

Here's Our Best Look Yet at Saturn's 'UFO' Moon - National Geographic

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March 09, 2017. • 3 min read. There's a tiny "flying saucer" orbiting deep within Saturn's rings, and a NASA probe has just gotten its most impressive look yet at the strange object. The ...

What Made Saturn's Ravioli-Shaped Moons? | Scientific American

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Saturn's moon, Pan, as seen by NASA's Cassini orbiter. The moon's strange shape could be due to collisions between moonlets moving through Saturn's rings. NASA, JPL-Caltech and the Space ...

Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan

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These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles). These images are the closest images ever taken of Pan and will help to characterize its shape and geology.

Here's Why Saturn's Inner Moons Are Shaped Like Ravioli and Potatoes

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The odd shapes of Saturn's inner moons, which resemble objects ranging from ravioli to potatoes, may be due to mergers of tiny moonlets, a new study finds. The new finding may help to explain how ...

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Reveals the Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan

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These newly released images are the closest images ever taken of Pan and will help astronomers characterize its shape and geology. These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn 's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA 's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles).

New Images of Pan, Saturn's Walnut Moon, in Unprecedented Detail

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Nope—the weird raw images dropped by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this week feature Saturn's tiny moon Pan and its equatorial fringe in unprecedented detail. Nearing its end, Cassini ...

The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini

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Pan is a shepherd moon, orbiting in a gap in the rings and keeping the area free of stray bits of ice and dust. This process also gives it its weird equatorial ridge as the strays stick to the ...

One of Saturn's Moons is Making Astronomers Hungry - Smithsonian Magazine

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Pan's gravity holds open a 200-mile-wide opening in Saturn's A ring known as the Encke Gap. Showalter tells Drake that it's likely that some of that the fine dust sticks to Pan, and since ...

Cassini shows strange Saturn moon Pan | Space | EarthSky

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Saturn moon Pan via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/K. Walbolt/S. Samochina ... Scientists are saying that weird ridge around Pan's equator could be a couple of miles high and is likely ...

Pan (moon) - Wikipedia

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Pan is the innermost named moon of Saturn. It is a small, ravioli-shaped moon approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring.Pan is a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles. It is sometimes described as having the appearance of a walnut.. It was discovered by Mark R. Showalter in 1990 from ...

Cassini Says Farewell to Saturn's Delicious 'Ravioli' Moon Pan

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This stereo image from Cassini offers 3D views of Saturn's weird moon Pan, during a final closeup by the NASA spacecraft on March 7, 2017. If you have red-blue anaglyph glasses, the images will ...

Image: Cassini reveals strange shape of Saturn's moon Pan - Phys.org

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These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles).

Cassini reveals strange shape of Saturn's moon Pan

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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (2017, March 12). Cassini reveals strange shape of Saturn's moon Pan. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 03 ...

Why Saturn's inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes

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Saturn's ridged moons may have gotten their weird shapes from a moonlet demolition derby. The small inner moons have a range of strange shapes: Pan and Atlas are disks with bulging middles like ...

Pan Moon: The Walnut-Shaped Ring Shepherd - The Planets

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It is a small moon in the Encke Gap of Saturn's A ring. This bizarrely shaped satellite is one of the shepherd moons of this ringed planet. It is considered the innermost moon of Saturn that was given a name. Pan keeps the 322-km (200-mile) wide Encke Gap clear of stray debris and ring materials.

Saturn's tiny, bizarre moon Pan looks like a flying saucer... or Trump ...

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Saturn's moon Pan is a weird one. The little moon, which has been compared to a ravioli, President Donald Trump and a UFO, seems to have a rocky ridge growing out of its middle section.

Weirdly Colored Saturn Moons Linked to Ring Features, NASA's Cassini ...

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New views of Pan, Dasphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus have suggested possible reasons for the strange shapes and colors of those moons. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Bad Astronomy | Saturn's weird ravioli-shaped moons may have ... - SYFY

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Saturn's weird ravioli-shaped moons may have formed from slow speed collisions. ... Pan, and Prometheus (top row) and models of their shapes based on collisions (bottom). ... moves out from Saturn. A second, smaller moon then forms in the spot where the first one formed, and it too moves out. This process continues, with each moon growing as it ...

NASA images reveal strange shape of Jupiter's moon Pan - Yahoo

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The closest images ever taken of Jupiter's moon Pan have revealed a bizarre and unexpected shape. Rather than being a spherical satellite, the tiny moon looks more like a ravioli-shaped piece of ...

The 10 weirdest moons in the solar system - Space.com

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Nereid. Nereid was discovered by Gerald Kuiper in 1949. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Nereid was the second moon found to orbit Neptune, and its claim to fame arises from its extreme orbit. Nereid's ...
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