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Saturn's cloud bands
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:05 pm
by tkane
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?
Ringshine
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:33 pm
by rperezu
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.
Greetings from Mexico.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:08 pm
by BMAONE23
It may be just an optical illusion caused by the ring shadow.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:23 pm
by Dan Cordell
BMAONE23 wrote:It may be just an optical illusion caused by the ring shadow.
Correct.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:26 pm
by Dan Cordell
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.