Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan

Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan are minute, inside, ring moons of Saturn. They are shown at the identical scale on this montage of photos by the Cassini spacecraft that made its suited remaining orbit of the ringed planet in September 2017. In truth, Daphnis modified into chanced on in Cassini photos from 2005. Atlas and Pan were first sighted in photos from the Voyager 1 and a pair of spacecraft. Flying saucer-shaped Atlas orbits reach the outer edge of Saturn’s lustrous A Ring while Daphnis orbits all the plot in which by the A Ring’s narrow Keeler Gap and Pan all the plot in which by the A Ring’s greater Encke Gap. The irregular equatorial ridges of the minute ring moons might presumably maybe presumably be built up by the accumulation of ring field materials over time. Even minute Daphnis makes waves within the ring field materials as it glides along the threshold of the Keeler Gap.