Monday, November 23, 2009

Slanting Shadows Cassini:

Long shadows stretch away from the towering edge waves created by the gravity of the moon Daphnis in this image taken a little more than a week before Saturn's August 2009 equinox.Tiny Daphnis (8 kilometers, 5 miles across) appears as a bright dot in the Keeler Gap near the tall edge waves it has created in the A ring. The moon has an inclined orbit and its gravitational pull perturbs the orbits

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