the Keeler gap in Saturn's rings is made all
the
more exciting by this image, in which the disk of the 7 kilometer-wide body is resolved for the first
time.
The new body, provisionally named S/2005 S1, was first seen in a time-lapse sequence of images
taken on May 1, 2005, as Cassini began its climb to higher elevations in orbit around.
In the vicinity of the little moon, the Keeler gap edges bear striking similarities to the scalloped edges
of the 322 kilometer-wide Encke gap, where the small moon Pan (25 kilometers across) resides.
From the size of the waves seen in the scalloped edges of the Encke gap, imaging scientists were
able to estimate the mass of Pan. They expect to do the same eventually with S/2005 S1.
This image was obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 2, 2005, at a
distance of about 594,000 kilometers from Saturn.
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