Cassini’s cameras were retargetted to capture the tiny Keeler gap moon S/2005 S1, visible at center and first discovered by Cassini a few months ago. Waves raised in the gap edges by the Keeler moonlet’s gravity are clearly visible here. Scientists can use the height of the waves to determine the little moon’s mass. The Keeler moon is 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) across and orbits within its 42-kilometer (26-mile) wide gap. The much larger Encke gap (325 kilometers, 200 miles wide) is seen here at upper right, minus its embedded moonlet, Pan. Pan (28 kilometers, 17 miles across) was discovered in Voyager images. The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera on August 1, 2005, from a distance of approximately 853,000 kilometers (530,000 miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel. The image has been contrast-enhanced and magnified by a factor of three to aid visibility.

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