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Saturn's F-Ring

Target Name:  Saturn, Prometheus
Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
Produced by:  Calvin J. Hamilton
Copyright: © 2002 Calvin J. Hamilton
Date Taken:  12 November 1980
Date Released: 16 January 2002
(Publisher Permission Request)

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Saturn's outermost ring, the F-ring, is a complex structure made up of two narrow, braided, bright rings along which "knots" are visible. Scientists speculate that the knots may be clumps of ring material, or mini moons. Prometheus, Saturn's inner shephard satellite of the F-ring is also visible off to the right of the image. The F-ring was photographed at a range of 750,000 kilometers (470,000 miles).

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