File:Saturn ring spokes PIA11144 secs15.5to23 20080926.ogv
Saturn_ring_spokes_PIA11144_secs15.5to23_20080926.ogv (file size: 435 KB, MIME type: application/ogg)
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Dark spokes dance around Saturn's B ring in this series of movies comprised of images taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera. This full size animation is from the sequence taken on 26 September 2008: 15.5 to 23 seconds extracted from a concatenation of spoke movies acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. As Saturn nears equinox in August 2009 and the sun angle on the ring plane decreases, spokes become common sights in Cassini images, just as they were in Voyager images. The planet's orbital period is 29.5 years, so Saturn has nearly made one complete trip around the sun since the flybys of the two Voyager spacecraft in 1980 and 1981, allowing Cassini to closely match Voyager's viewing geometry. This movie shows the sunlit side of the rings at low solar phase, or spacecraft-rings-sun, angles. The spokes appear dark against Saturn's B ring at low phase angles because the particles within them scatter light more efficiently in the forward direction (away from Cassini) than the surrounding larger ring particles. In the opposite viewing geometry, at high phase angles, spokes appear bright relative to surrounding ring particles. |
| Date | 26 September 2008 |
| Source | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11144 (MOV video) |
| Author | NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute |
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