Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission Part II: Ringed World
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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
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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.
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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.
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Panoramic Rings
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Expanse of Ice: Ring Names
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Glint of Sun: Rainbow on the Rings
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Inner Circle:Saturn’s D Ring
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Bands of Brightness: Outer C Ring Detail
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No Vacancy: The Cassini Division
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A Light Beyond: Light From a Flickering Star
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Mind the Gap: Daphnis
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Crash Scene: Dark Channels Created by Prometheus
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Predictable Pattern: Rings Full of Waves
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Making Waves
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Continued in Part III: Moons of Saturn