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The moon's shadow (the little black dot) appears to have rays radiating from it on the Saturn surface. I guess it is strictly coincidental.

[quote="Wolf Kotenberg"]Want to get our descendants interested in science and mathematics ? Set a goal for our nation to populate every planet in our solar system with an orbiting observatory !! Pass me an ice cold one for posting.[/quote]
:b: :b: :b: :b: :b: :b: Here ya go, Wolf. 1-cold sixpack.

Want to get our descendants interested in science and mathematics ? Set a goal for our nation to populate every planet in our solar system with an orbiting observatory !! Pass me an ice cold one for posting.

Geesh!, how stunning is Saturn! . . reminds me of that line from Fly Me To The Moon, "let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars" . . and now Saturn too, thanks APOD!!

[quote="Boomer12k"]Source of disturbance has been found....someone fuuted under the clouds.... :roll:

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....fuuted :?: :?: ....do you mean that someone disturbed Saturn's gas with their own :?: :lol:

Source of disturbance has been found....someone fuuted under the clouds.... :roll:

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Kind of eerie how the rings are so flat and their shadow curves with Saturn's surface. 8-) :D

[quote="agulesin"]What is the little black dot below the ring's shadows? a Saturn-Spot by any chance? are we tracking them?[/quote]
"The shadow of the moon Enceladus is visible on the planet in the lower left of the image."
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12829
That is the page available at the "Pictured above" link in the APOD text.

[quote="agulesin"]What is the little black dot below the ring's shadows? a Saturn-Spot by any chance? are we tracking them?[/quote]

That is most likely the shadow of one of Saturn's many moons.

Ann

What is the little black dot below the ring's shadows? a Saturn-Spot by any chance? are we tracking them?

I like this one a lot. And yesterday's.

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