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Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn’s ring moons, it has …

Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn’s ring moons, it has a has a very visible effect on the rings. At 28 km across (left of centre), Pan holds open the Encke gap and shapes the ever-changing ringlets within the gap, seen here in this Cassini image from July… See https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7503/