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New Ring Around Saturn
The Fun Guy writes "From the New York Times: 'In its first month orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has detected a new radiation belt in an unexpected place, its invisible swarm of trapped high-energy particles circling the planet inside the inner edge of Saturn's signature disk of luminous rings.' Cassini has also seen 'a striking glow emanating day and night from the planet's largest moon, Titan.' A moon that shines with unborrowed light!"
There could be a new ring around Uranus.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
so, are we just supposed to believe it's a coincedence that not only does saturn have the deathstar for a moon, now it has another moon that glows in the dark?
here's hoping my tinfoil hat blocks whatever evil alien radiation Titan's broadcasting
It confuses newbies, that's why. It also confuses non-newbies, because the rings of Saturn always in the past have referred to the icy chunks. Always in the past, radiation toroids have been called belts.
I may as well be a pendant, you say, but I am in the habit of having people understand what I write because conventions of meaning and usage are followed. Otherwise the situation is thy nacturations are to me! As plurdled abbleblotchits
on a lurgid bee.
See?
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The last one off Titan was supposed to turn off the light!
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.