How Solar Eclipses At Saturn Just Revealed Secrets About Its Rings

How Solar Eclipses At Saturn Just Revealed Secrets About Its Rings

NASA’s Cassini mission orbited Saturn from 2004 through 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute New insights about Saturn’s famous ring pattern have come from data collected during solar eclipses at the sixth planet from the sun. Published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a new paper crunches archive data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, …

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How To See Saturn’s Rings Before They ‘Disappear’ From View

How To See Saturn’s Rings Before They ‘Disappear’ From View

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this natural-color portrait on July 19, 2013, which is the first … [+] image to show Saturn, its moons and rings, plus Earth, Venus and Mars, all together. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI Saturn’s rings will disappear in 2025. That’s what we’re being told by multiple articles online in what is fast becoming a viral …

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