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Saturn’s moon Pan looks like ravioli

Pan in Cassini image

This week, Cassini captured the closest images ever taken of Pan, a small moon that orbits amid Saturn’s rings.

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By Helen Thompson

- More than 2 years ago

Saturn serves up the closest thing to space pasta, the latest images from NASA’s Cassini probe, released March 9, show.

On March 7, the spacecraft snapped a series of portraits (one shown above) of Pan, Saturn’s small moon that orbits within a 325-kilometer-wide gap in one of the planet’s rings.