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Cassini Captures Saturn F Ring
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2006 The Cassini spacecraft has captured an image revealing structure in Saturn's narrow and complex F ring, including one of the faint strands that seems to curl around the planet in a tight, rotating spiral. Scientists think the spiral structure might be due to disturbance of micron-sized F-ring particles by a tiny moon - or moons. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 19, 2006, at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and from just above the ring plane. The image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini at JPL Cassini Image Team Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
Cassini Attempts 12th Titan Flyby
Pasadena, Calif. (SPX) Feb 26, 2006NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns to Titan on Monday for its twelfth flyby since beginning to survey Saturn and its moons on July 4, 2004. |
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