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Saturn in Blue and Gold
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#86352
by
[z]Barbara Harris
@
04.05.2006 00:00
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Saturn in Blue and Gold
Explanation:
Why is Saturn partly blue?
The
above picture
of Saturn approximates what a
human
would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world.
The
above picture
was taken in mid-March by the robot
Cassini spacecraft
now orbiting
Saturn
.
Here
Saturn's majestic rings
appear directly only as a thin vertical line.
The rings show their complex structure in the dark shadows they create on the image left.
Saturn's fountain moon
Enceladus
,
only about 500 kilometers across, is seen as the bump in the plane of the rings.
The northern hemisphere of
Saturn can appear partly blue
for the same reason that
Earth's skies can appear blue
-- molecules in the cloudless portions
of both planet's atmospheres are better at scattering blue light than red.
When looking deep into
Saturn's clouds
, however, the natural
gold hue of Saturn's clouds becomes dominant.
It is not known why southern Saturn does not show the same blue hue --
one hypothesis holds that clouds are higher there.
It is also
not known
why Saturn's
clouds are colored
gold.
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#86362
by
Squeezer
@
04.05.2006 06:27
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hue?
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#86447
by
Cédi
@
05.05.2006 01:11
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farbton oder so