Posted on 09/22/2004 7:06:53 PM PDT by zide56
British scientists have detected a new ring around Saturn.
The discovery was made by a team examining images sent back to Earth by the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the planet. The ring is 190 miles wide and interposed between two other rings.
One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy, three ringy dingy.
Perhaps NASA can somehow use this as inspiration for a new flavor of Tang.
Our tax dollars at work.
Maybe because they don't have your who-cares attitude ??
Hm...
Nah.
This smells of Gandalf's handiwork.
TS
"One Ring to Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them,
One Ring to Bring Them All Together
And in the Darkness Bind Them
In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie."
I care....its rather facinating. But then again I am an amatuer astronomer
Agreed. I think it's pretty damn cool myself.
Cassini will get a lot more interesting next month when it flies by the moon Titan. Titan has a dense, murky atmosphere and it has proved frustrating to image the surface; only a few surface features have been seen. Titan is suspected to have oceans of liquid methane. But Cassini is equipped with a surface-imaging radar, so we will finally get a good look at the surface of this alien world.
Oh, and in December, the Huygens probe is supposed to enter the atmosphere of Titan and land (or splash down) on the surface, sending data and images as it does so.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
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