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Slanting from upper left to lower right, Saturn's rings are seen here in bright detail. A gap known as the Keeler Gap runs through the middle of this section, and a tiny moon is seen within the gap. On either side of the gap are gentle waves along the edges.

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Slanting from upper left to lower right, Saturn's rings are seen here in bright detail. A gap known as the Keeler Gap runs through the middle of this section, and a tiny moon is seen within the gap. On either side of the gap are gentle waves along the edges.
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SETI Institute (setiinstitute@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 19:00:17 JST SETI Institute

#PPOD: Saturn's tiny (8-kilometer) shepherd moon Daphnis travels inside the Keeler Gap in the A ring. The Cassini Imaging Team processed this view from pictures taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on February 6, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/J. Major
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