Buy this Saturn Rings and Daphnis photo. High quality Cassini space picture, poster, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photograph PIA08171. Wide variety of sizes. This splendid view offers a detailed look at the faint rings within the Cassini Division as well as a rare glimpse of the Keeler gap moon, Daphnis. The small, ring embedded moon is a bright unresolved speck above center, near the outer edge of the A ring. Discovered in Cassini images in 2005, Daphnis is a mere 7 kilometers (4 miles) across. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 20, 2006, at a distance of approximately 483,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) from Saturn. The image scale on the sky at the distance of Daphnis is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel. Addition Date: May 4, 2006 Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute |
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