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Daphnis
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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 Km (a little less than 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 approx. 483.000 Km (such as about 300.000 miles) from Saturn. The image scale on the sky at the distance of Daphnis is about 2 Km (a little more than 1 mile) per pixel.
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