For example, this close-up view of the Keeler Gap, which is near the outer edge of Saturn’s main rings, shows in great detail just how much the moon Daphnis affects the edges of the gap.

The imaging team suspected the moon’s presence last July when they spotted wispy features in the Keeler Gap’s outer edge. Embedded moons create similar features in Saturn’s F ring and the ...

(In fact, Saturn was then at a different tilt relative ... suspicions that an even tinier moon is embedded in the A ring's Keeler Gap. The gravitational fields of these moons sweep the gaps ...

carved by moons orbiting Saturn embedded in the ring. The Encke gap is 325 km wide, and is from the moon Pan. The much narrower Keeler Gap is due to Daphnis. If you plunk a small moon down in a ...

While the gaps between Saturn's rings are small, the 26-mile-wide Keeler Gap is large enough to contain multiple moons, albeit very small ones. The largest ring system—the one discovered in 2009 ...

Survey the rings Saturn’s rings ... American astronomer James Keeler discovered the gap through the Lick Observatory 36-inch refractor at high power. Other observers had likely spied the ...

Saturn has an extensive ring system that extends out to 282,000km ... one of which is the Keeler Gap located near the outer edge of the planet's main rings. The tiny moon Daphnis has cleared ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Saturn's diminuitive moon Daphnis may be small, but it sure knows how to make its presence ...

Patterns in the rings can be made by Saturn’s moons. In this image, Daphnis is sculpting material near the Keeler Gap (left) and Pan is producing waves near the Encke Gap (right). (NASA/JPL ...

From Daphnis’ perspective inside the Keeler Gap, as the rings slide past it, rock and ice wave from both sides. Saturn’s moon, Mimas, looks suspiciously like the Death Star from "Star Wars." ...

Five of Saturn's moons are so-called shepherd moons, whose mass clears out their orbit by shoving away debris in their path, creating a gap between rings. As they skim past the edges of the gaps ...