We’ve never seen Saturn looking like this before. New images beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft show Saturn’s distinctive rings in unprecedented detail.
While the rings, as a whole, look like perfectly smooth disks from a distance, when viewed from close range, the smaller-scale bits of ice, dust and rock that form the rings can be spotted.
The photos reveal waves in the outer rings caused by the motions of some of Saturn’s moons and clumps of material within the rings. Some of the high-resolution images also harbor views of tiny “moonlets” in the planet’s rings, according to NASA. Read more…
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