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The Return of Saturn's Spokes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheel-in-the-sky dept.

CheshireCatCO writes "After more than a year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has finally spotted 'spokes' in the rings. Spokes, large radial structures in the rings, where seen by the Voyager spacecraft and have remained difficult to fully explain. The reappearce of the spokes comes about two years earlier than many models predicted."

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  1. What about Scientists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but what do models know? A lot of them don't even have degrees.

    1. Re:What about Scientists? by airherbe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some of them have heavenly bodies.

  2. Upon closer examination by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Astronomers have noticed a giant baseball card embedded in the spokes to make saturn feel like its a real motorcycle.

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  3. See Cassini's path by latent_biologist · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Unlike Voyager or Hubble, Cassini is in a unique position to study ring spoke phenomena at Saturn."

    With Celestia, you can actually follow Cassini's path as it follows Saturn. It really puts the above statement in perspective (plus it makes u feel like an astronaut).