Saturn's cloud bands

tkane · Post by **tkane** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:05 pm

In today's APOD (5/4/05) Saturn's cloud bands on the bottom appear to be roughly parallel to ring plane, but the clouds bands on the top appear to be skewed. Why is that?

rperezu · Post by **rperezu** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:33 pm

Am I imagining things, or in the picture of May 4 2005 (APOD) we can see some ringshine on the night part of Saturn?. It is only visible in my LCD monitor, but should be easily visible with some image processing.

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BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:08 pm

It may be just an optical illusion caused by the ring shadow.

Dan Cordell · Post by **Dan Cordell** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:23 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:It may be just an optical illusion caused by the ring shadow.

Correct.

Dan Cordell · Post by **Dan Cordell** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:26 pm

It's an enhanced-color image, so probably not, although it's possible. I'd have take a look at the non-enhanced version to draw any sort of conclusion.

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Saturn's cloud bands

Saturn's cloud bands

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