Using MY camera on the Cassini spacecraft (I know it must be mine now after all the tax payments I've made :^), I grabbed some just-received raw images off their website showing the sheparding/rippling effect of small moons on the F ring, so I put them in this Windows movie sequence
http://setisociety.org/Saturn-Ring-Shepharding-Effect.wmv
They over-exposed the moons to show the rings better (the Cassini site doesn't identify these moons in the image data, but looking around their website I'd guess they are probably Prometheus(63 miles wide and the inner one that's stirring things up) and Pandora (52 miles wide.)
Image credit NASA/Cassini/JPL
Regards, Jason H.
http://setisociety.org/Saturn-Ring-Shepharding-Effect.wmv
They over-exposed the moons to show the rings better (the Cassini site doesn't identify these moons in the image data, but looking around their website I'd guess they are probably Prometheus(63 miles wide and the inner one that's stirring things up) and Pandora (52 miles wide.)
Image credit NASA/Cassini/JPL
Regards, Jason H.
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