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Atlas Information Page

    Description

    Atlas is an inner moon of Saturn, orbiting around the outer edge of Saturn's A Ring. Like Pan, Atlas has a distinctive flying saucer shape created by a prominent equatorial ridge not seen on the other small moons of Saturn. Cassini images revealed in 2004 that a temporary faint ring of material with the orbit of Atlas. The small, pointy moon has a mean radius of 15.1 km. It orbits 137,670 km away from, taking 14.4 hours to complete its trip around the planet.

    Identifier (LID)

    urn:nasa:pds:context:target:satellite.saturn.atlas

    Version

    1.1

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