Thursday, May 19, 2005
Rings
It's only black and white, but I like it, like it, yes I do.
Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet. The Cassini spacecraft has turned its primary attention away from moons for a few months. Cassini is now in a stage of its mission to study and examine the beautiful rings, which the earthbound can see in strong binoculars or a backyard telescope.
Almost daily now, the Cassini web site offers new photos of rings. It boggles the mind to consider they stretch over 200,000 miles from end to end, but are only as thick as a two-story house. In other words, if the rings were as thick as a piece of paper, they would form a big round "O" over a mile from end to end.
