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Saturn’s Rings Appear to Disappear

By |2025-04-29T09:09:10-04:00April 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Where are Saturn's ears? Galileo is credited, in 1610, as the first person to see Saturn's rings. Testing out Lipperhey's recently co-invented telescope, Galileo did not know what they were and so called them "ears". The mystery deepened in 1612, when Saturn's ears mysteriously disappeared. Today we know exactly what [...]

Aurora around Saturn’s North Pole

By |2024-12-08T08:09:08-05:00December 8th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Are Saturn's auroras like Earth's? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft monitored Saturn's North Pole simultaneously during Cassini's final orbits around the gas giant in September 2017. During this time, Saturn's tilt caused its North Pole to be clearly visible from Earth. The [...]

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