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I've been interested in astronomy for some time now. I even built my own telescope, a 8in. Dobsonian. So I've been following the progress of the Cassini-Huygens craft that has been circling Saturn for a while. I can't get enought of the pictures that are sent back and then posted for all to see.
They clean up a few and put captions on them but I really like going through the raw images. I've read that "The particles in Saturn's rings are composed primarily of water ice and range from microns to meters in size" . So is there a thickness to these rings?
If you take a look at a picture like this one (I hope this works)
It's not quite edge on but close, and the look like they're pretty thin. I do realize that Saturn is rather large, it would be a tight fit between the Earth and the Moon, so it may be that they have a significant thickness but compared to the planet it looks rather small.
They clean up a few and put captions on them but I really like going through the raw images. I've read that "The particles in Saturn's rings are composed primarily of water ice and range from microns to meters in size" . So is there a thickness to these rings?
If you take a look at a picture like this one (I hope this works)
It's not quite edge on but close, and the look like they're pretty thin. I do realize that Saturn is rather large, it would be a tight fit between the Earth and the Moon, so it may be that they have a significant thickness but compared to the planet it looks rather small.
