Monday, December 06, 2004

Images of Saturn reveal kinks, theft

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USATODAY.com - New images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal undulating kinks in one of the rings and theft of ring dust by a moon.
Scientists speculate that the shepherd moon Prometheus might be gravitationally pulling material away from Saturn's F ring. The kinks are seen in greater detail than ever before and the thievery has been photographed for the first time.

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