The Cassini spacecraft has caught a thief on camera. Images show Saturn’s moon Prometheus stealing particles from the planet’s F ring. This multistranded, kinked ring is flanked by 102-kilometer-wide Prometheus and another moon, Pandora.
The thievery and the detailed view of kinks in the F ring were recorded by Cassini on Oct. 29, 2004, when it was 782,000 km from the moon.
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