Posted on 08/01/2010 12:29:26 PM PDT by LibWhacker
There is something around the moon of Rhea. It's not a ring, and it sure is weird, say researchers.
Back in 2005, a suite of six instruments on the Cassini spacecraft detected what was thought to be an extensive debris disk around Saturn's moon Rhea, and while there was no visible evidence, researchers thought that perhaps there was a diffuse ring around the moon. This would have been the first ring ever found around a moon. New observations, however, have nixed the idea of a ring, but there's still something around Rhea that is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Saturn's second-largest moon.
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THX THX . . . WILL CHECK IT OUT.
New observations, however, have nixed the idea of a ring, but there's still something around Rhea that is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Saturn's second-largest moon.
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I was flying around the moon of Rhea the other day but didn’t see anything. That’s odd. Maybe it was me.
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