Shadowing the "Gap"...

Captin NASA:"The shadow of the moon Tethys is cast onto Saturn's "A"-Ring, almost blanketing the Enke Gap.
The novel illumination geometry created as Saturn approaches its August 2009 Equinox allows moons orbiting in or near the plane of Saturn's equatorial rings to cast shadows onto the Rings.
These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's Equinox which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. To learn more about this special time and to see a movie of a moon's shadow moving across the rings, see PIA11651 and PIA11660.

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 29° below the Ring-Plane. The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 25, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 759.000 Km (about 472.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or Phase, angle of 56°.
Image scale is roughly 4 Km (about 2,5 miles) per pixel".