[extropy-chat] Breathless in Saturn's Shadow

[Amara Graps]

I think that this must be the most stunning picture of a planetary
ring system _ever_:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08329.jpg

Details on that spectacular image here:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329

Two new rings were discovered from the above Cassini camera observations.
A "Janus/Epimetheus Ring" and a "Pallene Ring":
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA08328_fig1.jpg

Amara
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Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Roma, ITALIA
Associate Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson