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Explanation: When orbiting Saturn, be sure to watch for breathtaking superpositions of moons and rings. One such picturesque vista was visible recently to the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. In 2006 April, Cassini captured Saturn's A and F rings stretching in front of cloud-shrouded Titan. Near the rings and appearing just above Titan was Epimetheus, a moon which orbits just outside the F ring. The dark space in the A ring is called the Encke Gap, although several thin knotted ringlets and even the small moon Pan orbit there.
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Publications with keywords: Titan - Saturn - rings
Publications with words: Titan - Saturn - rings
See also:
- APOD: 2026 May 6 Á The Retrograde Dance of Saturn and Neptune
- APOD: 2026 May 2 Á Seeing Titan
- Saturn at Night
- APOD: 2025 October 5 Á A Long Storm System on Saturn
- APOD: 2025 November 16 Á Crossing Saturns Ring Plane
- APOD: 2025 September 25 Á Saturn Opposite the Sun
- APOD: 2025 September 22 Á Equinox at Saturn