Cassini Sees Clumps in Saturn’s Rings
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“Still more than 100 days before it enters Saturn’s orbit, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is delivering great data back to Earth. This week’s images released from the spacecraft show clumps embedded within its narrow, outermost F ring. Two images were taken roughly two hours apart when the spacecraft was 62.9 million kilometres away. Clumps like this were seen when the Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn, but scientists haven’t had the chance to watch them for a long time - now they’ll have years to keep an eye on them.”
