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Titan, Rings, and Saturn From Cassini

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How thin are the rings of Saturn? Brightness measurements from different angles have shown Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane. The robot Cassini spacecraft now [...]

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Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane

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If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. This is because Saturn's rings are confined to [...]

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Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon With Odd Craters

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What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? Nobody's sure. To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn swooped past the sponge-textured moon in 2005 and 2010 and took images of unprecedented detail. An image from the 2005 pass, shown above in false color, shows a remarkable world strewn with strange [...]

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What You Can See With a Telescope

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In this article about planet telescopes, you will find out about: * What can you see with a telescope? * How to buy a telescope? * Tips to buy your first space telescope ::: What Can You See With A Telescope? ::: Planets - Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and some of the other planets in our [...]

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How to Buy the Best Telescope in the World

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No astronomy hobby can go for long, without a good telescope. So, how do you buy the best telescope in the world? And what is the best telescope in the world? In this article, you find how to buy the best telescope in the world. Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes. They also come [...]

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Saturn Storm

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Late last year, a new, remarkably bright storm erupted in Saturn's northern hemisphere. Amateur astronomers first spotted it in early December, with the ringed gas giant rising in planet Earth's predawn sky. Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft was able to record this close-up of the complex disturbance from a distance of 1.8 million kilometers on [...]

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Encyclopaedia Britannica 1801 Astronomy Jupiter Saturn

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Its Possible With a First Time Telescope

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From the stars to the planets in our solar system, from nebulas to galaxies, a first time telescope is a great way to make it possible for you to view the heavens. In this article about first time telescopes, you will find out about: * What can you see with a telescope? * How to [...]

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1850 Ring Planet Saturn Astronomy Socialists Meeting

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Prometheus Rising Through Saturn's F Ring

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What is that dark streak below Prometheus? Although it may look like a shadow or a trail blazed by sweeping up material, computer simulations indicate that the dark streak is better understood as an empty path pulled away by the gravity of Saturn's small moon. The particles don't follow Prometheus so much as glide sideways [...]

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Saturn: Light, Dark, and Strange

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What's creating those dark bands on Saturn? Sometimes it takes a little sleuthing to figure out the how and why of a picture taken by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft. Let's see. That large orb on the left must be Saturn itself. Those arcs on the right are surely the rings. The dark band running diagonally [...]

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The Dancing Auroras of Saturn

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What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and make movies. Once made, some movies clearly show that Saturnian auroras can change not only with the angle [...]

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Celestron AstroMaster 114 EQ Reflector Telescope

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The Sand Dunes of Titan

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Why do some sand dunes on Titan appear backwards? Central Titan, it turns out, is covered by sand, some of which appears strange. Images from the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn have uncovered long rows of huge sand dunes near Titan's equator that rise as high as 300 meters. Shadows indicate that most dune shapes [...]

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Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers

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What's causing those strange dark streaks in the rings of Saturn? Prometheus. Specifically, an orbital dance involving Saturn's moon Prometheus keeps creating unusual light and dark streamers in the F-Ring of Saturn. Now Prometheus orbits Saturn just inside the thin F-ring, but ventures into its inner edge about every 15 hours. Prometheus' gravity then pulls [...]

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Four Planet Sunset

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This mesmerizing sunset photo was taken from the summit of volcanic Mount Lawu, 3,265 meters above sea level, on July 21. The view looks west, toward the city lights of Surakarta (aka Solo), Central Java, Indonesia. Two other volcanic peaks, sharp Merapi (left) and Merbabu lie along the colorful horizon. Four planets shine in the [...]

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Moons Beyond the Rings of Saturn

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What's happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing -- Saturn's moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn's rings. In April, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took this narrow-angle view looking across the Solar System's most famous rings. Rings visible in the foreground include the thin F ring on the outside and the [...]

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