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PIA12725: Flying by Epimetheus
Swinging by Saturn's small moon Epimetheus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this shot during the spacecraft's April 7, 2010, flyby.
 Target Name:  Epimetheus
 Is a satellite of:  Unknown target/parent relationship
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens 
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  753 x 753 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cassini Imaging Team 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA12725.tif (567.8 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA12725.jpg (11.41 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Swinging by Saturn's small moon Epimetheus, Cassini snapped this shot during the spacecraft's April 7, 2010, flyby.

See PIA09813 and PIA06226 for even closer views from earlier flybys. Lit terrain seen here is on the Saturn-facing side of Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across). North on Epimetheus is up and rotated 27 degrees to the left.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 87,000 kilometers (54,000 miles) from Epimetheus and at a Sun-Epimetheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 69 degrees. Image scale is 519 meters (1,703 feet) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image Addition Date:
2010-09-21