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Heavy Disturbances
Caption NASA:"This Cassini image, which at first appears to show a serene scene, in fact reveals dramatic disturbances created in Saturn's A-Ring by its moon Daphnis. 
Near the center of the image, tiny Daphnis (about 8 Km across) appears as a bright dot in the Keeler Gap near the edge waves it has created in the A-Ring. The moon has an inclined orbit and its gravitational pull both perturbs the orbits of the particles of the A-Ring forming the Keeler Gap's edge and sculpts the edge into waves having both horizontal (radial) and out-of-plane components. Material on the inner edge of the gap orbits faster than the moon so that the waves there lead the moon in its orbit. Material on the outer edge moves slower than the moon, so waves there trail the moon.
Epimetheus (approx. 113 Km, or about 70 miles across) orbits beyond the F-Ring at the bottom of the image. Bright specks in the image are background stars. 
This view looks toward the Northern, sunlit side of the Rings, from about 11° above the Ring-Plane. 

The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 24, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,8 MKM (about 1,1 MMs) from Daphnis. 
Image scale is roughly 11 Km (a little less than 7 miles) per pixel".
Parole chiave: Saturn's Rings - "A" Ring

Heavy Disturbances

Caption NASA:"This Cassini image, which at first appears to show a serene scene, in fact reveals dramatic disturbances created in Saturn's A-Ring by its moon Daphnis.
Near the center of the image, tiny Daphnis (about 8 Km across) appears as a bright dot in the Keeler Gap near the edge waves it has created in the A-Ring. The moon has an inclined orbit and its gravitational pull both perturbs the orbits of the particles of the A-Ring forming the Keeler Gap's edge and sculpts the edge into waves having both horizontal (radial) and out-of-plane components. Material on the inner edge of the gap orbits faster than the moon so that the waves there lead the moon in its orbit. Material on the outer edge moves slower than the moon, so waves there trail the moon.
Epimetheus (approx. 113 Km, or about 70 miles across) orbits beyond the F-Ring at the bottom of the image. Bright specks in the image are background stars.
This view looks toward the Northern, sunlit side of the Rings, from about 11° above the Ring-Plane.

The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 24, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,8 MKM (about 1,1 MMs) from Daphnis.
Image scale is roughly 11 Km (a little less than 7 miles) per pixel".

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Nome album:MareKromium / Saturn: the "Ringed Beauty" and His Moons
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Parole chiave:Saturn's / Rings / - / "A" / Ring
Copyright:NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Data di inserimento:Dic 09, 2009
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