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DescriptionG ring PIA11503.jpg	English: A bright arc within Saturn's faint G ring holds a tiny gift. A small moonlet is just visible as a short streak near the ansa of the G ring arc in the top of two versions of the same image. The second (bottom) version of the image has been brightened to enhance the visibility of the G ring. The other streaks in this version of the image are stars smeared by the camera's long exposure time of 26 seconds. This version of the image shows a gap in the G ring which was faintly visible in an earlier Cassini movie (see PIA08327). The moonlet, dubbed S/2008 S 1, is likely a major source of the material of the G ring (see PIA11148). This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 1 degrees below the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 28, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 27 degrees. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.
Date	29 May 2009
Source	https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11503
Author	NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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