The effects of three of Saturn's ring moons can be spotted in this single
narrow-angle camera view.
The image has been strongly enhanced to better show the wakes on both
sides of the Encke Gap caused by Pan (26 kilometers, or 16 miles across,
left of center), as well as a hint of the edge waves in the narrow Keeler
Gap caused by Daphnis (7 kilometers, 4.3 miles across, below center).
Bright Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across, at right) pulls
away from its latest close encounter with the F ring. The aftereffects of
its recent passes are visible in the ring's inner edge.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 10
degrees above the ringplane. Saturn's shadow cuts across the rings at the
top of the scene.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 5, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.3
million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Pan. Image scale is 13
kilometers (8 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.