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The "Encke Gap" in detail
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Caption NASA:"Although the embedded moon Pan is nowhere to be seen, there is a bright clump-like feature visible here, within the Encke Division.
Also discernable are periodic brightness variations along the outer (right side) gap edge. (...)
The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 17° below the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2006 at a distance of approx. 421.000 Km (about 261.000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is roughly 2 Km (1,4 miles) per pixel".
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