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Daphnis is there...somewhere!
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Caption NASA:"The presence of the tiny ring moon Daphnis is betrayed by the edge waves it creates in the Keeler Gap.
The Gap is a narrow lane, about 42 Km (26 miles) wide, in Saturn's outer A-Ring. Daphnis (7 Km, or 4,3 miles across) was discovered in Cassini spacecraft images at the same time that scientists spotted the edge waves. Researchers had suspected the presence of a moon in this gap after Pan was discovered in Voyager spacecraft images taken 25 years earlier.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 54° above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 17, 2007 at a distance of approx.y 1,8 MKM (1,1 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel".
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