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To: Telepathic Intruder
I was looking at various "ring crossing" mpegs and animations. They don't directly answer the "surface view" question, but they do provide close-up views, so they kind of give the idea.

... in fact, the subject "Picture of the day" gives a nice close-up view as well.

Funny thing, when Cassini was in route to Saturn, I was all excited because I assumed, for some reason, that it would get real "in close" with the rings, so that we would get images of the ring particles, or moonlets, themselves ... like this no doubt fanciful depiction:

But, alas and alack, it was not to be! The realities of Saturn's deep gravitational well preclude any such manouever.

16 posted on 06/10/2008 12:30:35 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
The rings must be farily crowded like that -- when Voyager II flew directly through the rings, they gave it a 50-50 chance of survival (why would they do that?). Still, no pictures. Here's one of my favorites, forgot where I found it though. Hope you have your 3-D glasses handy...


17 posted on 06/10/2008 1:06:16 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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