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| Mork returning to Ork |
Saturn is the most famous of the ringed planets, garnering that "fame" before we discovered that other planets in our solar system also have rings.
The photo to the left (click to enlarge) is of "an object" traversing the F ring of Saturn, which made me think of Robin Williams and his character Mork of the Mork & Mindy Show.
Mork probably dropped a few F bombs while going through the F ring on his way back to Ork (perhaps because of what Earth Civilization seemed like to him).
Anyway, here is the post from that date:
One Mystery After Another At Saturn
The school bus sized Cassini spacecraft has photographed another strange phenomenon.
An object was photographed travelling through the "F" ring of the planet Saturn. Is it a small satellite in a strange orbit, a stray asteroid, or the Enterprise going through a time warp heading back to Earth?
As you can see, the object made the ring very bright behind it, and cast a shadow on rings closer to the camera.
It seems that constantly there are new discoveries around Saturn, from satellites orbiting "the wrong way" (e.g. Norse Group), to the great hexagon, to Enceladus, which is building rings around the planet with water from its own geysers.
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