NASA’s Cassini Reveals New Sculpting in Saturn Rings PRESS RELEASE DATE June 13, 2019 CONTACT Gretchen McCartney / Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-6215 / 818-354- 0724 gretchen.p.mccartney@jpl. A false-color image mosaic...
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NASA’s Cassini Reveals New Sculpting in Saturn Rings PRESS RELEASE DATE June 13, 2019 CONTACT Gretchen McCartney / Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-6215 / 818-354- 0724 gretchen.p.mccartney@jpl. A false-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of Saturn’s ring-embedded moons, and the waves it nasa.gov / jia.rui.c.cook@ kicks up in the Keeler gap. Images collected by Cassini’s close orbits in 2017 are offering new insight jpl.nasa.gov into the complex workings of the rings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. June 13, 2019, Mountain View, CA -- As NASA’s Cassini dove close to Saturn in JoAnna Wendel its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn’s NASA Headquarters, Wash- complex rings, new analysis shows. ington 202-358-1003 Although the mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data joanna.r.wendel@nasa.gov collected. A new paper published June 13 in Science describes results from four
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