
The sharp outer boundary of Saturn B ring, which is the bright ring region seen to the right in this image, is maintained by a strong resonance with the moon Mimas. For every two orbits made by particles at this distance from Saturn
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PIA08243
Date Created
August 15, 2006
Center
JPL
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