Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across) is one of Saturn's “co-orbital moons” because it shares nearly the same orbit as Janus (179 kilometers, 111 miles across) at a distance of approximately 151,000 kilometers (94,000 miles) from Saturn. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on February 18, 2005, from a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (684,000 miles) from Epimetheus and at a Sun-Epimetheus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 96 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of four to aid visibility.

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