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18 years 2 months ago #34007 by DeirdreKelleghan
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Awesome image from Cassini !!!!



Cassini Image Shows Saturn Draped in a String of Pearls

Saturn appears dressed to the nines, "wearing" a strand of "pearls" in
a stunning infrared
image from the Cassini spacecraft that showcases a meteorological
phenomenon.

The image, acquired by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer, shows
Saturn lit by its own internal, thermal glow. Clearly visible is a
60,000-kilometer-long
(37,000 miles) string of bright "pearls," which are actually clearings
in Saturn's deep
cloud system.

The findings are being presented today at the Division for Planetary
Sciences Meeting of
the American Astronomical Society held in Pasadena, Calif.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Saturn Observation Campaign

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18 years 2 months ago #34022 by pmgisme
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Incredible.

The pearls seem to come in pairs like "Scallop's Eyes" .

See:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Scallop_eyes.jpg

(Scallops can make pearls as well of course.
Their eyes are reflecting telescopes incidentally.
They looked through "Newtonian Telescopes" hundreds of millions of years before Newton !)

Peter.

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