Saturn’s rings, edge on, as seen by Cassini

By Cosmic Tribune on February 24, 2014   Astronomy, Impacting, Planets, Saturn, Telescopes, Time and Space  

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn’s “appendages” disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn’s unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on […]