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Bumper Car Moonlets Crash and Crumble in Saturn’s F Ring

9 Sep , 2014 by Bob King

Nothing stands still. Everything evolves. So why shouldn’t Saturn’s kookie, clumpy F ring put on a new face from time to time?  A recent NASA-funded study compared the F ring’s appearance in six years of observations by the Cassini mission to its appearance during the Saturn flybys of NASA’s Voyager mission, 30 years earlier. While […]

Cassini, clumps, F-Ring, moonlet, Prometheus, Roche limit, Saturn, Voyager

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Saturn’s Fluctuating F Ring

19 Nov , 2012 by Jason Major

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. Of Saturn’s countless ring structures the F ring may very well be the most dynamic, if not the most fascinating. Orbiting Saturn just […]

Cassini, CICLOPS, clumps, F-Ring, particles, rings, Saturn

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