Cassini shows Saturn’s moon Pandora close up

This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora. Pandora (52 miles, 84 kilometers) across orbits Saturn just outside the narrow F ring.

The spacecraft captured the image during its closest-ever flyby of Pandora on Dec. 18, 2016, during the third of its grazing passes by the outer edges of Saturn’s main rings, according to NASA report.

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.

Cassini has already sent the photos of an intriguing hexagon-shaped jet stream in Saturn’s atmosphere made on December 2 and 3, about two days before the first ring-grazing approach to the planet.