Grand Finale part 1, F ring orbits |
Grand Finale part 1, F ring orbits |
Nov 29 2016, 11:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
With its second to last swing by Titan the curtain has now opened on Cassini's final act. What wonders will we see in the rings?
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Mar 11 2017, 07:29 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Pan is very fractured and is probably tidally locked to Saturn?
The main body appears to be 'basically' round? The accretions of the fine 'dust apron' seem to be made from electrostatics and serendipity at Pan's 'equator' relative to the Enke Division? The first image is the clearest and deconvoluted. The second is annotated, I propose what it shows is that a 'fractured plate' (in red) slide out of place and caused a bulge in the dust apron at the right and caused dust to slide to create the bulge to the left? (or the asymmetrically fracture was there for quite some time and caused the bulges) It would be great if we could get an image with the sun angle reversed to see the cracks on the edge of the alleged 'plate slide'. as always, your mileage may vary. -------------------- CLA CLL
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