The Cassini spacecraft captures signs of activity on both sides of the
Roche Division— the region between Saturn's A and F rings.
At right, the small moon Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across) makes
waves in the edges of the narrow Keeler Gap. At left are several minor
kinks in the narrow core of the F ring.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 18
degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the
Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 31, 2008. The view was
acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (735,000
miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 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/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
