"Stunning Images: NASA Reveals 'Ravioli' Moon Encircling Saturn"

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"Stunning Images: NASA Reveals 'Ravioli' Moon Encircling Saturn"
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NASA has released never-before-seen photos of Pan, one of Saturn's moons, which has a unique "dumpling" shape resembling ravioli. The images, taken by the Cassini spacecraft, show the moon in detail and reveal a ridge around its equator that gives it its distinctive shape. Pan orbits Saturn from inside a gap in one of the planet's rings, making an orbit every 13.8 hours at an altitude of 83,000 miles. The discovery of Pan and other new moons has led scientists to use names from various mythologies beyond Greco-Roman Titans.

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