NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn just keeps sending us treasures. In this image, taken January 16, we see the moon Daphnis, a 5-mile diameter chunk of rock and ice, orbiting inside a gap at the ...

The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn’s rings on Jan. 16, 2017. This is the ...

Daphnis, one of Saturn's small ring-embedded moons, is seen here kicking up waves as it orbits within a gap between rows of icy ring particles. The image was taken by the international Cassini mission ...

Daphnis, one of Saturn’s ring-embedded moons, is featured in this view, kicking up waves as it orbits within the Keeler gap. The mosaic combines several images to show more waves in the gap edges than ...

Come on now. That's just a mind-blowing photo. We're looking at Saturn's moon, Daphnis, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it made one of its ring-grazing passes over the outer edges of Saturn's ...

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Saturn’s tiny moon friend, Daphnis, is finally getting its close-up. In a stunning new image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the elusive moon can be seen peeking out from within the Keeler gap of ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was launched in 1997 and has been observing the Saturnine system for almost 13 years. It took a while to officially get there, but the wait was certainly worth it, as Cassini ...

Vertical ring structures created by the moon Daphnis cast dark shadows on Saturn’s A ring in this image taken as the planet approached its August 2009 equinox. Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across ...

The Cassini spacecraft captures here one of its closest views of Saturn’s ring-embedded moon Daphnis. This image was taken July 5, 2010, at a distance of only about 75,000 kilometers (47,000 miles) ...

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