Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturns F Ring 720p 3 D converted
Scientists working with images from NASA s Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange halfmilesized (kilometersized) objects punching through parts of Saturn s F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. These trails in the rings, which scientists are calling minijets, fill in a missing link in our story of the curious behavior of the F ring. I think the F ring is Saturn s weirdest ring, and these latest Cassini results go to show how the F ring is even more dynamic than we ever thought, said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team member based at Queen Mary University of London, England. These findings show us that the F ring region is like a bustling zoo of objects from a half mile kilometer to moons like Prometheus a hundred miles kilometers in size, creating a spectacular Scientists have known that relatively large objects like Prometheus (as long as 92 miles, or 148 kilometers, across) can create channels, ripples and snowballs in br, br,
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