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Brothers in the Night: Atlas and Daphnis
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Caption NASA:"Looking upward from beneath the Ring-Plane, the Cassini Spacecraft spies Saturn's "Wave Maker" and "Flying Saucer" moons.
Daphnis (8 Km, or about 5 miles across at its widest point) and its gravitationally induced edge waves are seen at left within the Keeler Gap. The equatorial bulge on Atlas (30 Km, or about 19 miles across at its widest point) is clearly visible here.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 16° below the Ring-Plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 22, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 898.000 Km (such as about 558.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (about 3 miles) per pixel".
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