... 2004 July 2 . The EnckeGap: A Moon Goes Here . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . ... snap pictures , Cassini's narrow angle camera recorded this stunning close-up of a much smaller gap in the rings, the EnckeGap ...
... of Saturn's expansive rings , including Saturn's A ring featuring the dark EnckeGap ... If you look closely in the EnckeGap you'll find a speck that is actually Pan . ...
... While the B and C rings are otherwise not visible here, the very narrow outer F ring lies toward the bottom of the image as well as a section of the partly transparent A ring and its 300 kilometer wide Enckegap crisscrossing the ring shadows. ...
... Named for discoverers , the large, easily visible gap in the rings is known as the Cassini division, while the narrower outer gap is the Encke division. ...
... Keeler was (probably accidentally) cheated of his rightful fame when the A ring gap became known as "Encke's Division". ... A-ring (now called the "Encke Minimum") which is quite different from the sharp, distinct gap that Keeler recorded on the very ...