The thinnest profile of rings of Saturn in "blue and gold"

in #space7 years ago

This effective picture of Saturn has made the office of NASA of Cassini at the moment when it flew by parallel to the plane of rings of the giant planet so they seem a simple vertical strip on a photo. The small outgrowth on this strip, by the way, is a satellite of Enceladus Saturn. Color of the planet attracts attention. The northern hemisphere of Saturn seems bluish because of refraction of beams of the Sun and their dispersion on the same mechanisms, as in the terrestrial atmosphere. And more habitual golden color gives to the planet structure of her atmosphere about which in more detail before the completion of a mission will tell us Cassini.

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I for the first time see Saturn in such foreshortening! What thin rings at him!

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I have been closely following the Cassini program lately. Good work my friend.