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- Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Spokes on Saturns Rings (2009 June 2)
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Re: Spokes on Saturns Rings (2009 June 2)
Quoting the article: "Visible in the above image as light ghostlike impressions, spokes were first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft that buzzed by Saturn in the early 1980s. Their existence was unexpected. Oddly, the spokes more commonly observed when Saturn's rings are more nearly edge on ...