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Saturn’s Little Wavemaking Moon

April 25, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Captured on January 15, this narrow-angle Cassini image shows an outer portion of Saturn’s A ring on the left and the ropy F ring crossing on the right. The thin black line near the A ring’s bright edge is the Keeler [...]

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Saturn to Shed its Spooky Spokes for Summer

March 12, 2013

As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is along for the ride, giving astronomers a front-row seat to seasonal changes taking place on the ringed planet. One of these fluctuations is the anticipated disappearance of the “spokes” found in the rings, a few of which [...]

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The Rings on the Planet Go ‘Round and ‘Round…

December 23, 2012

Raw wide-angle Cassini image of Saturn’s rings (NASA/JPL/SSI) Recently I posted an image of two of Saturn’s shepherd moons, Pandora and Prometheus, captured by Cassini in a face-off across the spindly F ring. Now here’s a much wider-angle view of the gas giant’s rings, seen by Cassini  two days later on December 20, and the same [...]

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Saturn. In color.

November 19, 2012

Color-composite of Saturn, made from raw Cassini images acquired in visible light channels on 18 Nov. 2012. (NASA/JPL/SSI. Composite by Jason Major.) Looking for an awesome view of Saturn as it would look from 1,951,681 kilometers (1,212,718 miles) away? Here you go. Just my and Cassini’s way of reminding everyone how beautiful our own Solar System [...]

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Saturn’s Fluctuating F Ring

November 19, 2012

Bright clumps of material spotted within Saturn’s ropy F ring (NASA/JPL/SSI) Released today, this image acquired by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows some interesting structures forming within Saturn’s thinnest but most dynamic ring. Remove this ad

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