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  Sunday  August 8  2004    08: 50 AM

astronomy

Cassini just begins to suprise.

Spacecraft Finds Belt Around Saturn Unlike Any Ever Seen Before


In its first month orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has detected a new radiation belt in an unexpected place, its invisible swarm of trapped high-energy particles circling the planet inside the inner edge of Saturn's signature disk of luminous rings.

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  thanks to DANGEROUSMETA!


Cassini-Huygens


Ringscape In Color

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