Cassini Captures Best View Yet Of Saturn's Ring Currents

NASA / JPL ^ | December 12, 2007 | M. Buckley

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Scientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn's giant magnetic field, finding that it is asymmetric and dynamic, unlike similar rings that appear around Earth. Using the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a team led by Dr. S. Krimigis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) discovered that Saturn's ring of energetic ions - called a "ring current" - is a warped disc that is deflected by the solar wind out of the equatorial plane on the planet's night side and thickens dramatically on the day side.

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This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from the Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument. It shows Saturn's embedded "ring current," an invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in the planet's magnetic field...The plasma sheet thins gradually toward the nightside. The view is from above Saturn's equatorial plane, which is represented by grid lines. The moon Titan's location is shown for scale. The location of the bow shock is marked, as is the flow of the deflected solar wind in the magnetosheath. -- Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (NASA/JPL/JHUAPL)

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[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks, and it’s pretty. ;’)

[Quix]

Fascinating.

I think you may have seen the link to maybe an ATS thread or ref’d article about the electric solar system or some such . . . which, I think, has all kinds of implications regarding this era and the END TIMES.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electricuniverse

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Posted on 11/10/2006 3:19:03 AM EST by Fred Nerks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1736112/posts

[ValerieTexas]

Is Cassini named for Oleg?

[Quix]

Thanks.

[JRios1968]

Not quite...

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[ValerieTexas]

Great source! Thanks

[JRios1968]

Don’t mention it :)

[SunkenCiv]

Saw this on Andrew Collins' website (I was looking for something else), but didn't want to just eat his bandwidth; alas, I liked his image very well, but didn't look long enough to come up with the NASA original.

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Google

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Sony Might Have Gotten It Right with the PS3 from the Beginning
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Posted on 11/25/2007 1:38:14 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930299/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks from me as well. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks from me as well. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks from me as well. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks from me as well. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks from me as well. :’)