ESA - Cassini-Huygens - Cassini captures best view yet of Saturn's ring currents

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Saturn’s ring current

Cassini captures best view yet of Saturn's ring currents

13 December 2007
Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn's giant magnetic field. They find that it is asymmetric and dynamic, unlike similar rings that appear around Earth.
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