NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures close up images of Saturn’s moon Pandora

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures close up images of Saturn’s moon Pandora National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ‘ Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning images of Santurn’s moon ‘Pandora’. On December 18, 2016, Cassini captured it during its closet-ever fly of Pandora. It was Cassini’s third of its grazing passes by the outer edges Saturn’s main rings. NASA in

its statement said that the image was taken in green light by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera.

Pandora which measures 84 kilometres in diameter is seen covered in large craters. According to NASA, the image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 25,200 miles (40,500 kilometers) from Pandora. Image scale is 787 feet (240 meters) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency.