NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 3月17日 02時40分

Groovy Rings at Saturn! From afar, Saturn's rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from Cassini, we see that there are varied structures in the rings at almost every scale imaginable.

Structures in the rings can be caused by many things, but often times Saturn's many moons are the culprits. The dark gaps near the left edge of the A ring (the broad, outermost ring here) are caused by the moons (Pan and Daphnis) embedded in the gaps, while the wider Cassini division (dark area between the B ring and A ring here) is created by a resonance with the medium-sized moon Mimas (which orbits well outside the rings). Prometheusis seen orbiting just outside the A ring in the lower left quadrant of thisimage; the F ring can be faintly seen to the left of Prometheus.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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