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The Rings on the Planet Go ‘Round and ‘Round…
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 two moons can still be seen staring each other down… two tiny points of light visible across the wavering line of the F ring at lower center.
This is just one raw image in a series of 56 that Cassini captured on the 20th, and I’ve combined them together to make a GIF animation — click below to watch:
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Read the rest of The Rings on the Planet Go ‘Round and ‘Round… (138 words)
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Post tags: animation, Cassini, moons, NASA, planets, Prometheus, rings, Saturn
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2012-12-23 14:45:40
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/99136/the-rings-on-the-planet-go-round-and-round/
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