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According to Earth.com, Saturn's rings will rotate back into view after March, then briefly disappear again in November 2025. To see Saturn's change from earth, you will need a powerful telescope ...
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.
A failed photopolarimeter prevented Voyager 1 from observing Saturn's rings at the planned resolution; nevertheless, images from the spacecraft provided unprecedented detail of the ring system and revealed the existence of the G ring. [28] Voyager 2 ' s closest approach occurred in August 1981 at a distance of 41,000 km (25,000 mi). [27]
Opposition surge from the retroreflective lunar soil brightens the area around Buzz Aldrin's shadow during Apollo 11 (photo by Neil Armstrong).. The opposition surge (sometimes known as the opposition effect, opposition spike or Seeliger effect [1]) is the brightening of a rough surface, or an object with many particles, when illuminated from directly behind the observer.
Fainter planetary rings can form as a result of meteoroid impacts with moons orbiting around the planet or, in the case of Saturn's E-ring, the ejecta of cryovolcanic material. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ring systems may form around centaurs when they are tidally disrupted in a close encounter (within 0.4 to 0.8 times the Roche limit ) with a giant planet.
If you love looking at the stunning rings of Saturn, here's a heads-up: They're going to vanish from our view briefly. Saturn's rings will disappear from view for a time. This is why and when
The moon would have been torn apart by Saturn's tidal forces, somewhere between 200 and 100 million years ago. Up to 99% of the moon's mass would have been swallowed by Saturn, with the remaining 1% forming the rings of Saturn. [2] The origin of Saturn's rings from the destruction of a satellite has been previously proposed by other authors. [3]
Something Weird Is Going On Inside Saturn We may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn. Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings.