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Atlas (moon)

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Atlas
Atlas, as imaged by Voyager 1,
on November 12, 1980. (NASA)
Atlas is a moon of Saturn, named after Atlas (Titan).

Atlas was discovered by R. Terrile[?] in 1980 from Voyager photos. It seems to be a shepherd satellite of the A ring.

wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump