Lost Among Rings

Pan is nearly lost within Saturn's rings in this view that captures a small section of the rings from just above the ringplane.Pan (28 kilometers, 17 miles across) appears a small bright dot on the far side of the rings near the middle top of the image. Pan orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring. See PIA11625 to see Pan casting a shadow on the ring around the time of Saturn's August 2009 equinox.A