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by broggerp
Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:19 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Saturn (APOD 16 Oct 2006)
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What about that nightside equatorial dark band?

I'm thinking the light reflected from the more-outer rings is shaded by the "inner-more" rings, leaving the thin shadow line between the two hemispheres' ring-glow reflections, which gradually recede with increasing lattitude. Who'd have guessed it?

A darned nice picture, Cassini team!