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Saturn Image: Rings of Saturn ... This color-enhanced image shows the dark spoke-like features in the rings. The spokes seem to form very rapidly with sharp edges and then dissipate. The A ring appears as the outermost bands but in this image appears as two bands divided by the Encke's division. ... Saturn's Magnificent Rings...
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www.solarviews.com/cap/sat/satring.htm
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Saturn has four main groups of rings and three fainter, narrower ring groups. These groups are separated by gaps called divisions. Close up views of Saturn's rings by the Voyager spacecrafts, which flew by them in 1980 and 1981, showed that these seven ring groups are made up of thousands ... The exact number is not known.
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Saturn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these...
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Rings of Saturn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The rings of Saturn are the most extensive planetary ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometres to metres, that form c...
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Complex tidal resonances exist between a number of Saturn's moons and the ring system. Some of the moons – the so-called shepherd moons, Atlas, Pandora, and Prometheus – are important in keeping the rings in place;
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www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Saturn_rings.html
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Depending on how you define an individual ring, Saturn's rings number in the thousands. Voyager observed that the main rings are composed of ringlets so numerous that the ring system looks much like a phonograph record, with thousands of thin grooves in it.
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quest.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/qa/saturn/Number_of_rings.txt
quest.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/qa/saturn/Number_of_rings.txt
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Saturn/Earth Comparison ... Saturn Observational Parameters ... Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet; Saturnian Rings Fact Sheet;
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html
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Saturn's rings from 11 million km ... Ordering Information; CD-ROM Volume: VG_0004; NASA Image ID number: FDS 34699.06; Other Image ID number: 1510S1-009; NSSDC Data Set ID (Photo): 77-084A-01J; NSSDC Data Set ID (CD): 77-084A-01Q; Other ID: N/A;
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Number 268 (Story #2), May 1, 1996 by Phillip F. ... SATURN'S RINGS ARE SEEN EDGE-ON at Earth only twice every 30 years. This is a good time to view the Saturn system since the glare of the rings is so much less. For the recent 1995 ring-plane crossings, the Hubble Space Telescope made extensive observations.
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