News tagged with ring plane
Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...
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Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's (w/ Video)
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. ...
Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 14, 2008 |
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Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ...
Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views of the Ringed Planet
Mar 01, 2007 |
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings. Over the last several months, the spacecraft has climbed to higher and higher ...
Saturn to Pull Celestial Houdini on August 11
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. ...
Image: Prometheus Plays Tug of War with One of Saturn's Rings
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The diminutive moon Prometheus whips gossamer ice particles out of Saturn's F ring in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Aug. 21, 2009.
A long night falls over Saturn's rings
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Oct 24, 2009 |
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As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However, once approximately every 15 years, night falls over the entire ...
Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 05, 2008 |
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A team of scientists led from the UK has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations. Their results are reported in Nature. Saturn's F ring ...
Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows During Saturn Equinox
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Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost ...
Saturn's faint rings share some of their secrets
Jul 05, 2006 |
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NASA Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn's diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation.
Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
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