Monday, September 25, 2006

Scientists Discover New Ring and Other Features at Saturn

From NASA-Cassini Mission Website...
09.19.06

Saturn sports a new ring in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 17, during a one-of-a-kind observation.

Other spectacular sights captured by Cassini's cameras include wispy fingers of icy material stretching out tens of thousands of kilometers from the active moon, Enceladus, and a cameo color appearance by planet Earth.

Image right: A new diffuse ring, coincident with the orbits of Saturn’s moon’s
Janus and Epimetheus, has been revealed in ultra-high phase angle views from Cassini. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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