The real Pandora

This is a picture of the 50-mile-wide moon Pandora, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on June 3, 2010.

Cassini launched in 1997 to explore Saturn. The mission was originally slated to end in 2008, but got its first reprieve with 27 months of additional funding to study the planet during its equinox. This year, NASA gave Cassini another 6 ½-year life extension, to continue exploring Saturn and its moons:

Found @ wired.com.

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