rings Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/rings/ Astronomy author and speaker Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:55:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png rings Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/rings/ 32 32 166732936 Cassini spies tiny moon Epimetheus next to Saturn’s rings https://www.colinstuart.net/cassini-spies-tiny-moon-epimetheus-next-to-saturns-rings/ https://www.colinstuart.net/cassini-spies-tiny-moon-epimetheus-next-to-saturns-rings/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:55:32 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1825 Saturn is a lot of people’s favourite planet due to its resplendent rings. Some of those rings – made of house-sized chunks of ice – have recently been snapped by the Cassini space probe alongside the planet’s diminutive moon Epimetheus (just 113 kilometres across). Released today, but taken on December 5, 2014, Cassini was 2 million kilometres […]

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