Sunday, July 03, 2005

Saturn's rings

Oh my, this is so cool - cool I tell you!
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Saturn's vast and majestic ring system has its own atmosphere - separate from that of the planet itself, according to data from the Cassini spacecraft. And Saturn is rotating seven minutes more slowly than when probes measured its spin in the 70s and 80s - an observation experts cannot yet explain.

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