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Saturn-throwing some shapes

Saturn Chocolate Swirls

 

The shapes form in an area of turbulent flow between the two different rotating fluid bodies with dissimilar speeds.

A number of stable vortices of similar size form on the slower (south) side of the fluid boundary and these interact with each other to space themselves out evenly around the perimeter.

The presence of the vortices influences the boundary to move northward where each is present and this gives rise to the polygon effect.

No longer rings.

These are obviously just my little art astronomy efforts here. Even the great Cassini could not take images like this…or could it?

 

Have a Cassini Swirl

 

Another one that replaced the rings with chocolate swirls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to go back to cassini reality.

 

cassini was a visitor to saturn

Saturn Kronos 2017

Saturn Saturday April 2017

How Long Is A Day On Saturn?

The Making of the Grand Finale

Only a few months are left for Cassini to explore the rings of Saturn.

 

The Grand Finale – Cassini

 

 

Who Is Cassini?

 

Cassini Saturn Continues

Searching Planet Saturn

 

Satellite Cassini-Huygens 

The Cassini Huygens Information

The Journey – The Spacecraft

Saturn F-Ring

#NASACassini

Go behind the scenes

Amateur Images Saturn Cassini 

The Cassini Mission Timeline 

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These Rings of Wonder

Saturn – The Ringed Planet

 

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Sat turned head.

Although reflection from the rings increases Saturn’s brightness, they are not visible from Earth with unaided vision.

In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope to the sky, he became the very first person to observe Saturn’s rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature.

 

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Theory for the Rings

“It [Saturn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic”.

How did Saturn get surrounded by rings

In 1655, Christiaan Huygens became the first person to suggest that Saturn was surrounded by a ring. Using a 50 power refracting telescope that he designed himself, far superior to those available to Galileo, Huygens observed Saturn and wrote that “It [Saturn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic”. Robert Hooke was another early observer of the rings of Saturn, and noted the casting of shadows on the rings.

In 1675, Giovanni Domenico Cassini determined that Saturn’s ring was composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division. This division is a 4,800 km-wide region between the A Ring and B Ring.

In 1787, Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the rings were composed of a large number of solid ringlets.

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Naked Eye Dark Sky

 

Saturn and Cassini again I say

Saturn and Cassini again I say

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Saturn Cassini Passed through My Head

Flybys are a major element of Cassini’s tour. The spacecraft’s looping, elliptical path around Saturn is carefully designed to enable occasional visits to the many moons in the system. All flybys provide an opportunity to learn more about Saturn’s icy satellites, and encounters with giant Titan are…

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Saturn and Cassini again I say

Saturn and Cassini again I say

https://twitter.com/ColeyArtAstro/status/686396825914486784

logo planet head

Saturn Cassini Passed through My Head

Flybys are a major element of Cassini’s tour. The spacecraft’s looping, elliptical path around Saturn is carefully designed to enable occasional visits to the many moons in the system. All flybys provide an opportunity to learn more about Saturn’s icy satellites, and encounters with giant Titan are…

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Saturn and Cassini again I say

logo planet head
Saturn Cassini Passed through My Head

Flybys are a major element of Cassini’s tour. The spacecraft’s looping, elliptical path around Saturn is carefully designed to enable occasional visits to the many moons in the system. All flybys provide an opportunity to learn more about Saturn’s icy satellites, and encounters with giant Titan are actually used to navigate the spacecraft, changing its orbit or setting up future flybys.
Many of the most exciting encounters are “targeted” flybys, for which Cassini’s flight path is steered so the spacecraft will pass by a specific moon at a predetermined distance, referred to as “closest approach.” Cassini’s targeted flybys have yielded incredible close-up views and many groundbreaking science results. Visits to Dione and Hyperion, for example, as well as the daring Oct. 2008 dives through the Enceladus plume, have provided some of the great highlights of the mission.

 

Cassini and I Love Saturn

Cassini and I Love Saturn

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It looks great and tells us so much – whats not to like about the planet Saturn?

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#astronomy I so love #Cassini – Find out about the story here.. https://t.co/TdhCYnaSI9

— Chris Cole (@ColeyArtAstro) January 11, 2016

See the official account

Cassini completed its initial four-year mission to explore the Saturn System in June 2008 and the first extended mission, called the Cassini Equinox…

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Cassini and I Love Saturn

Cassini and I Love Saturn

IMG004265

It looks great and tells us so much – whats not to like about the planet Saturn?

coleyartfiasco-cassini

#astronomy I so love #Cassini – Find out about the story here.. https://t.co/TdhCYnaSI9

— Chris Cole (@ColeyArtAstro) January 11, 2016

See the official account

Cassini completed its initial four-year mission to explore the Saturn System in June 2008 and the first extended mission, called the Cassini Equinox…

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