Rare Sun Angle Reveals Wrinkles in Saturn’s Rings
Credit: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
NASA’s Cassini Saturn probe has detected vertical structure in the rings of Saturn from a carefully timed imaging angle as the Sun approaches the planet’s equator. In this image, shadows cast by waves in the edges of the Keeler Gap, located in the outer A ring, stretch across the rings. The waves...
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