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To: zeebee
It just happens I had saved this recently. Just an illustration.


12 posted on 06/09/2008 10:32:23 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Just an illustration.

Yep, and you can see right away that the geometry is all wrong. You would have to be at least several Saturn diameters away from the center of Saturn to get this sort of perspective on the rings.

In fact, the illustration misrepresents the proportions of the rings altogether. They're much wider than that in comparison to their outer radius. They inner D and C rings are depicted, but they would be invisible in the bright sky that is shown. In fact they are all but invisible telescopically. I guess if you expanded the brighter A and B rings to the total width shown it wouldn't be too far off, but it is still nothing like a Saturn surface view, geometrically.

14 posted on 06/09/2008 11:45:08 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Telepathic Intruder; dr_lew

The rings cast such a dark distinct shadow- if you were in this shadow, would the rings appear dark? Would it seem like night time?

To me, viewing the planet in a telescope is the most awesome sight in the universe.


18 posted on 06/10/2008 2:43:26 AM PDT by zeebee
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