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    Cassini finds rhythm in Saturn's rings

    Saturn's ring rhythm
    31 January 2008

    Two of Saturn's rings have been found by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to contain orderly lines of densely grouped, boulder-size icy particles that extend outward across the rings like ripples from a rock dropped in a calm pond.
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