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Saturn and its rings will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth.. Here's what's going on. Saturn's rings to disappear by March. Why? Saturn's ...
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.
The sun passes south to north through the ring plane when Saturn's heliocentric longitude is 173.6 degrees (e.g. 11 August 2009), about the time Saturn crosses from Leo to Virgo. 15.7 years later Saturn's longitude reaches 353.6 degrees and the sun passes to the south side of the ring plane.
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Kronos is a concept mission to Saturn.It is aimed at detailed study of the chemical composition of Saturn's atmosphere, gravity and magnetic fields. The proposal consists of the solar powered carrier spacecraft, two atmospheric probes and (possibly) two small probes for the close-up imaging of the Saturnian rings.
Next, a gamma-ray burst occurs, Phobos becoming a ring system, whereas Saturn's rings disappear. Antarctica then melts in the year 43,343,155, followed by a significant asteroid impact in the year 70,606,131, and the formation of a supercontinent in the year 153,793,159.
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The probes entered orbit on 1 July 2004, and the mission ended on 15 September 2017, when Cassini flew into Saturn's upper atmosphere [4] [5] in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn's moons, some of which have active environments that could potentially bear life. [6] [7] The mission is widely perceived to have succeeded beyond ...