Daphnis' Disturbances

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 (8 kilometers, 5 miles 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 perturbs the orbits of