A new image of two moons near Saturn's rings has been released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Image was captured by the space agency's Cassini spacecraft. Two moons, Prometheus and Pandora, are seen amid the planet's rings.

On May 6, Cassini took the image by making use of its narrow-angle camera used in visible light. The view is from about 0.3 degrees under the plane of the rings. Both moons are there in the ring plane. Prometheus is close to the center of the image, and Pandora is closer the right edge. Cassini was nearly 994,000 miles from Prometheus when it captured the image.

The moons are small in size, but their gravity has an effect on the architecture of F ring of Saturn. As per researchers, Prometheus is roughly 53 miles wide, and Pandora is nearly 52 miles wide. As per NASA's Solar System Exploration website on the moons of Saturn, Prometheus and Pandora were found in 1980 by the Voyager 1 probe. The moons are shepherding moons; they push F ring's particles into a ring-shaped structure.

Prometheus, which is a low-density, probably porous body of ice, has been hit by fewer meteors than its closest neighbors Janus, Epimetheus, and Pandora. But some craters on its surface are huge, as much as 12.4 miles across. Similar to Prometheus, Pandora is an object with irregular shape. Other Saturnian moons, like Hyperion, have high-relief craters. However, Pandora's craters seem to be blunted and filled with very fine particles of ice.