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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images _ Eerie E-ring

Posted by: jmknapp Dec 30 2005, 01:18 PM

Looking at the latest pictures of the e-ring taken on Dec. 28, there are some eerie light patches on some of them:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=59445

Camera artifacts?

Posted by: um3k Dec 30 2005, 03:27 PM

The stripe in the middle is, of course, the e-ring, and the other light areas are indeed camera artifacts.