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New images of the rings taken around the 11 August 2009 equinox of Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have shown that the rings extend significantly out of the nominal ring plane in a few places. This displacement reaches as much as 4 km (2.5 mi) at the border of the Keeler Gap , due to the out-of-plane orbit of Daphnis , the moon that creates ...
The scientists surmise Saturn’s rings may be pristine not because they are young but because they are dirt-resistant. Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017.
The fully processed composite photograph of Saturn taken by Cassini on July 19, 2013 Earth can be seen as a blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn. The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled.
NASA released up-close images of Saturn's rings. ... See more on Saturn's rings: No telescope on this planet would ever have been able to see this. Cassini left Earth in 1997 and, in its nearly ...
Saturn has the most spectacular ring system, with seven rings and several gaps and divisions between them. Few missions have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 flew by, but Cassini ...
It may have something to do with the way the mosaic was built; from the image description "The view is a mosaic of 36 images...taken over the course of about 2.5 hours, as Cassini scanned across the entire main ring system." --jjron 10:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC) The inner ring is almost transparent, you can see this in other Saturn photos. I don ...
Saturn’s rings are seen as viewed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which obtained the images that comprise this mosaic at a distance of approximately 450,000 miles from Saturn April 25, 2007.
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