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Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission Part II: Ringed World

Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission Part II: Ringed World. A virtual exhibit based on exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History and the Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art. Ringed World.

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Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission Part II: Ringed World

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  1. Spectacular Saturn:Images from the Cassini-Huygens MissionPart II: Ringed World A virtual exhibit based on exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History and the Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art

  2. Ringed World Saturn’s dazzling rings are made mainly of ice, in chunks that range in size from marbles to school buses. Small amounts of rock and other material mixed in give them the pastel hues photographed by Cassini. This blend of particles orbits Saturn in a disk that is as spectacularly thin as it is wide. Edge-to-edge, Saturn’s rings stretch some 270,000 kilometers (165,000 miles)—two-thirds the distance from Earth to the moon. Yet in most places they are only about ten meters (about 30 feet) thick.

  3. Ringed World As Saturn’s rings whirl in formation around the planet, the particles gently jostle and bump each other, forming clumps in some places and thinning out in others. Moons drive ripples and waves across the rings with their gravity. Ever changing, the dynamics of this disk provide scientists with a model for understanding other spinning systems, like galaxies, the disks of material falling into black holes and quasars and even our early solar system.

  4. Panoramic Rings

  5. Expanse of Ice: Ring Names

  6. Glint of Sun: Rainbow on the Rings

  7. Inner Circle: Saturn’s D Ring

  8. Bands of Brightness: Outer C Ring Detail

  9. No Vacancy: The Cassini Division

  10. A Light Beyond: Light From a Flickering Star

  11. Mind the Gap: Daphnis

  12. Crash Scene: Dark Channels Created by Prometheus

  13. Predictable Pattern: Rings Full of Waves

  14. Making Waves

  15. Continued in Part III: Moons of Saturn

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