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Old 16-April-2005, 04:49 PM
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Default Which of Saturns moons are these?

I'm assuming that they are moons? Image artifact? If moons- is one of them drawing material from the ring?

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi.../N00032099.jpg
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I'm assuming that they are moons? Image artifact? If moons- is one of them drawing material from the ring?

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi.../N00032099.jpg
The right one is most likely Prometheus, and the left one may be Pandora. They are the F ring shepherd moons (they keep it from spreading out).
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here's another angle from APOD


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951223.html
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