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A new ring of material found

9 September 2004

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The image was taken by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft wide-angle camera on 1 July 2004, just after the spacecraft had crossed the ring plane following Saturn orbit insertion.

The maximum radial resolution is approximately 7 kilometres per pixel. The region from the A ring to the F ring spans some 3500 kilometres. The image has been enhanced to show the presence of faint ring material just beyond the edge of the A ring and in the orbit of Atlas (indicated by the dotted red line).

The moon Prometheus (102 kilometres across) can be seen close to the F ring at the lower left of the image.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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