Prometheus pulls material from the tortured F ring in this highly detailed view. The aftereffects of the moon’s other recent encounters with the ring are visible above as dark channels in the inner ringlet. One of two F ring shepherd moons, Prometheus is 86 kilometers (53 miles) across. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 7 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 1, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Prometheus. Image scale is 12 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.

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