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Daphnis' final appearance

Daphnis' final appearance
Daphnis' final appearance This image of Saturn's outer A ring features the small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the edges of the Keeler Gap. The image was taken by Cassini on 13 September 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth. The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 782,000 kilometers from Saturn. Image scale is 4.3 kilometers. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI