Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both fascinate scientists and wreak havoc on the F ring. Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles ...
Cassini continues making loop-de-loops around Saturn, returning tens of thousands of way cool pictures. Like this one: From 1.3 million kilometers (800,000 miles) away – 3 times as far as the Moon is ...
Per the program notes, Mere Mortals incorporates the Pandora and Prometheus myths as allegory for the troubling advent of AI. To be honest, though, the dramaturgy is so fuzzy I’m pretty sure I ...
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn’s moon Dione were taken on Dec. 12, 2011, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Although Cassini obtained more detailed images on previous flybys of Dione, this was the ...
Two of Saturn’s moon’s Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) and Pandora (84 kilometers, or 52 miles across), are seen here shepherding the planet’s narrow F-ring. Prometheus overtakes ...