Friday, September 9, 2011

APOD 1.2


It has just been discovered that Saturn has new rings around it. These were discovered by a robotic spacecraft called Cassani. These rings cause Saturn's night side to look illumintated because of the amount of rings and the amount of sunlight this is produced by them. Some of these rings are produced by physical properties from surrounding space objects like saturn's moons. This gives us new information that can later be useful in understanding more about our celestial neighbors. It also shows us that we do not really know everything that we could know about these planets. We still have a lot of exploring to do in our galaxy which may lead to other more important discoveries in the future.

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