Space agency NASA has shared a unique picture on its social media account. The picture is of the shape of a dumpling. It has been sent by the space agency’s Cassini spacecraft. NASA has asked users to guess about the image. It is claimed that this picture is of Saturn’s inner moon, Pan.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) often shares the latest photos of galaxies, stars, and planets within the solar system. Recently, the agency also shared panoramic images captured by the spacecraft Cassini. In its Instagram post, the American space agency has shared a picture of a dumpling-shaped object, on which users have commented.
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What Did NASA Say?
Sharing the photo, NASA wrote, “Pan is the innermost of Saturn’s known moons. It orbits the planet from inside a gap in Saturn’s rings. It appears every 13.8 seconds at an altitude of 83,000 miles (134,000 km). Completes one orbit per hour. These two images from the Cassini spacecraft show how its perspective changed as it passed within 15,300 miles (24,600 km) of Pan. This was the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pan, Whose data was quite different compared to previous data. Pan was discovered by M.R. Showalter in 1990. About nine years ago, images of the Voyager 2 spacecraft revealed that Pan’s orbit around the equator Ridge is similar to Saturn’s moon Atlas.”
NASA further described the photos, “Two black-and-white images of Saturn’s moon Pan. Both photos are taken from different viewpoints. The image on the left appears to be taken from above the moon, while the image on the right appears beneath it. There is a flat ridge around the moon’s midpoint, and lines look as if they have been scratched into its surface.”
