Saturn’s rings at around 600 meters per pixel. Not close enough to see individual ring particles but close enough to discern the textures and patterns drawn out by fast-moving clumps and straws. Images via Cassini in January 2017. - ThreadSky

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kevinmgill.bsky.social • 83 days ago

Saturn’s rings at around 600 meters per pixel. Not close enough to see individual ring particles but close enough to discern the textures and patterns drawn out by fast-moving clumps and straws.

Images via Cassini in January 2017.

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pfalcon.bsky.social•83 days ago

🖤🤍

jamineyc.bsky.social•83 days ago

Cassini took some astonishing photos.

astroaure.bsky.social•83 days ago

Incredible 🤯 Why are there such "line" patterns ? Resonances with the many moons ?

amazingmoosh.bsky.social•83 days ago

It would be cool to eventually do a mission to Saturn's rings so we can see what those ring particles actually look like.

kevinmgill.bsky.social•83 days ago

💯 but could you imagine remote piloting a spacecraft anywhere near those rings and expecting to survive for long?

giggitygiggitee.bsky.social•83 days ago

Death sentence, but resolving one of the propeller moonlets would be cool as heck

djcinsb.bsky.social•83 days ago

That was an actual proposal idea I started to draft a few years ago.

thomasappere.bsky.social•83 days ago

Incredible. These are the highest resolution images of the rings on the mission?

kevinmgill.bsky.social•83 days ago

Hmm, I’m not sure…

thomasappere.bsky.social•83 days ago

The texture is amazing, like threads of a fabric.

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