NASA : Stuck on the Rings .- Pegado a los Anillos

Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., la Agencia Espacial NASA, nos informa que la nave The Cassini-Huygens misión ha captado una imagen del satélite de Saturno; Tetis que el quinto en tamaño con in diámetro de 1062 kilómetros , es también conocido como Saturno III. Entonces la información dice..."Como una gota de rocío que cuelga en una hoja, Tethys parece estar pegado a los anillos A y F de esta perspectiva.....Tethys (660 millas, o 1062 kilometros de diámetro), al igual que las partículas de los anillos, se compone principalmente de hielo. La brecha en el anillo A través de la cual Tetis es visible es la división de Keeler, que se mantiene clara por la pequeña luna Dafnis (Daphnis no visible aquí)......................

Stuck on the Rings

Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf, Tethys appears to be stuck to the A and F rings from this perspective.

Tethys (660 miles, or 1,062 kilometers across), like the ring particles, is composed primarily of ice. The gap in the A ring through which Tethys is visible is the Keeler gap, which is kept clear by the small moon Daphnis (not visible here).

This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Tethys. North on Tethys is up and rotated 43 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 14, 2014.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 22 degrees. Image scale is 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov .

The Cassini imaging team homepage is at

 http://ciclops.org .

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

NASA

Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui

ayabaca@gmail.com

ayabaca@hotmail.com

ayabaca@yahoo.com

Inscríbete en el Foro del blog y participa : A Vuelo De Un Quinde - El Foro!