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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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