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by Gaplets
Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:48 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from... (2017 Aug 08)
Replies: 13
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Re: APOD: Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from... (2017 Aug 08)

When Galileo said that Saturn has handles, he meant that it just looked like that. When we say that Saturn has a disk, we don't mean that it is one solid body like Huygens thought. When we say that Saturn has rings, we do not mean that they are annular and concentric. When we say that Saturn has rin...
by Gaplets
Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:38 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2017 Jun 18)
Replies: 37
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Re: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2017 Jun 18)

@distefanom Dust it is. Called "doughnuts". More dust is collected the longer the mission goes on.