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The "Good Shepherds"
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Caption NASA:"The moons Pan and Daphnis cruise through the Encke and Keeler gaps, respectively.
The edge waves used to discover Daphnis can be seen here as the brightening on either side of the moon. And although the edge waves Pan raises in the Encke Gap are not visible here, the wakes caused by Pan's disturbance of the Rings are clearly visible.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 20, 2008 at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (such as about 742.000 miles) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 29°.
Image scale is roughly 7 Km (about 4 miles) per pixel".
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