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Artists at Work

12/17/2013 11:00 AM EST

Saturn's moons create art on the canvas of Saturn's rings with gravity as their tool. Here Prometheus is seen sculpting the F ring while Daphnis (too small to discern in this image) raises waves on the edges of the Keeler gap. Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across) is just above image center while Daphnis (5 miles, or 8 kilometers across), although too small to see in its location in the Keeler gap just to the right of center, can be located by the waves it creates on the edges of the gap. Prometheus and stars have been brightened by a factor of 2 relative to the rest of the image to enhance their visibility. There are 20 stars visible in this image. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 53 degrees below the ringplane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 25, 2013. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 111  degrees. Image scale is 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org . Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute el dispensador dice: mientras duermes, el universo se mueve, giran los planetas, las estrellas llueven, todo vibra mediante equilibrios leves... mientras duermes, tus sueños cursan, mientras el calor envuelve, tal vez mientras cae la nieve, pero el universo vibra, mientras te contiene... mientras duermes, artistas de las geometrías creen, creen en lo que hacen, creen en lo que sostienen, equilibrios armónicos que nadie atiende, distancias y órbitas que guardan puentes... mientras duermes, todo existe sin comprometerte, todo gira sin convocarte, porque la eternidad también es un arte. DICIEMBRE 18, 2013.-