Saturday, April 27, 2024
Contact    |    RSS icon Twitter icon Facebook icon  
Unexplained Mysteries
You are viewing: Home > Image Gallery > Viewing image
Welcome Guest ( Login or Register )  
Viewing category:
  Gallery Index
  >  Space Exploration
  >  Exploring the Solar System

Moons at Work

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2013
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Moons at Work
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Uploader comment: The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught "herding" their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational disturbances of nearby ring particles, one moon maintains a gap in the outer A ring and the other helps keep a ring narrowly confined.


Recent comments on this image