This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings ...
Daphnis is only about 8 km wide, but its gravity disturbs Saturn's A ring, creating ripples and edge waves. It orbits within the Keeler Gap, a 42 km-wide gap in the rings. This image shows how even small moons can shape massive ring systems.
⬇️ It's a render from 2016 by Kevin Gill. Lots of discussions in the replies.
8 km long axis.
You *could* actually stand on it!
I just checked:
Daphnis' escape velocity is 1m/s. So, you could stand on it and walk around carefully, but a normal jump would send you into the void or rather into your personal Saturn orbit.
How fucking amazing is it that it can create such a visible effect on the rings?!
@Natasha_Jay why is the picture sideways? 
Everyone knows the rings are horizontal!
(She says, jokingly)
Serious: is Daphnis made up of all the dust that used to be in that 42km gap?
@Aurani I came here to ask that exact question. It seems extremely plausible that it has at least engorged itself on the nearby ring dust and cleared its orbit to create that neat gap.
how was pictire taken?
@Natasha_Jay
I'm reminded of a scene in Kim Stanley Robinson 2312 about some of the characters surfing the wave of the rings.
<p>The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.</p> <p>The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.</p>
Be very interesting to see the view from the moon’s surface.
Attached: 1 image This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings ... Daphnis is only about 8 km wide, but its gravity disturbs Saturn's A ring, creating ripples and edge waves. It orbits within the Keeler Gap, a 42 km-wide gap in the rings. This image shows how even small moons can shape massive ring systems #Astronomy #Saturn
The shepherd moons of Saturn get stranger and stranger. Also, tidal locking implies that one could indeed stand on one without the scene spinning wildly. Just don't jump too hard.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Saturn-planet/Orbital-and-rotational-dynamics
Saturn - Rings, Moons, Dynamics: The orbital and rotational dynamics of Saturn’s moons have unusual and puzzling characteristics, some of which are related to their interactions with the rings. For example, the three small moons Janus, Epimetheus, and Pandora orbit near the outer edge of the main ring system and are thought to have been receiving angular momentum, amounting to a minuscule but steady outward push, from ring particles through collective gravitational interactions. The effects of this process would be to reduce the spreading of the rings caused by collisions between ring particles and to drive these moons to ever larger orbits. Because of the
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