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 | | I think I can surmise what Dr Porco is thinking (in part at least) with regard to a soft landing on Pan. |
 | | A soft landing on any of the bigger moons would be pretty much impossible, as their gravity wells have got to be deep enough to turn a landing into a lithobraking (cryobraking?), barring some fancy manoeuvring from Cassini. |
 | | More importantly, getting in close to Pan would give us some incredible shots of the rings, and, once close enough to Pan's orbital speed, we'd almost certainly get the Holy Grail -- individually resolved ring particles, possibly moving slowly enough across the field of view to make following their motion and rotation feasible. |
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