Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 14:07
in Astronomy & Space
From our vantage point on Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb with rings worthy of a carefully raked Zen garden, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been shadowing the gas giant long enough to see that the rings are a rough and tumble roller derby. It has also revealed that the planet itself roils with strange weather and shifting patterns of charged particles.