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Showing posts with label Rhea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhea. Show all posts

Friday, June 15, 2012

The second largest moon Rhea against Saturn transit


The second largest moon of Saturn might have its own ring system, which has not been found in any other known satellite, according to a study by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau Katllenburg-(Germany) published in the journal Science.
The researchers, led by Geraint Jones, analyzed data from the spacecraft Cassini, "which recently flew over Rhea, and report on a surprising lack of electrons around the moon. This phenomenon is interesting because Rhea lies within Saturn's magnetosphere, a vast magnetic bubble that surrounds the planet and kept inside a trapped ions and electrons.