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Saturn's rings: A panoramic perspective
03-10-2007 · Science News OnlineSailing high above Saturn's equator, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the most sweeping views of the planet's icy rings ever recorded.
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A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.
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- Possible origin of Saturn's mysterious G ring
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- Never-before-seen views of the ringed planet
03-02-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
The Cassini spacecraft, part of the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission, has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string.
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