Ravioli, pierogi, empanada... What do you see? No wrong answers

 Ravioli, pierogi, empanada... What do you see? No wrong answers :

Pan, the innermost of Saturn’s known moons, orbits the planet from inside a gap in one of Saturn's rings. It completes an orbit every 13.8 hours at an altitude of 83,000 miles (134,000 km). These two images from the Cassini spacecraft show how the spacecraft’s perspective changed as it passed within 15,300 miles (24,600 km) of Pan. This was the spacecraft's closest encounter with Pan, improving the level of detail seen on the little moon from previous observations.⁣

The ridge around Pan's equator is similar to Saturn’s moon Atlas, and gives the moon its distinctive dumpling shape.⁣

Pan was discovered by M.R Showalter in 1990 using images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft nine years earlier.⁣

Image description: 

Two black-and-white images of Saturn’s moon, Pan. The two images are taken from different perspectives: the image on the left appears to be taken from above the moon, while the image on the right seems to be taken from below it. The moon has a flat ridge around its midpoint, and lines that look like they were scraped across its surface.⁣

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute⁣

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                      26  September 2023