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[tedstryk]

It seems that starting with T3, Cassini was much more agressive in imaging available targets. It seemed to turn more to image more moons. Am I imagining this, or was Cassini being ultraconservative when it still had Huygens?

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

They pretty clearly are not completely edge-on in those photos -- there are some where the width of the thin triangle of visible ring is a bit wider than others. (Which is hardly surprising.)

The interesting question I myself haven't seen answered yet is whether the edge-on photos featuring Prometheus and Pandora -- which show a clear gap between the thin illuminated line of the F Ring and the thin illuminated line of the other rings -- are just due to this viewing-angle effect, or whether they're showing actual out-of-plane tilting or warping of the F Ring. (My guess is the latter. In one of those photos, Pandora, which of course is outside the F Ring, seems to be BETWEEN the plane of the F Ring and the plane of the other rings.)

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=33326

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...eiImageID=33330