Happy “spoke” season, Saturnians! Hubble captured new images of the spoke season during the planet’s equinox, when mysterious smudgy spokes appear around Saturn’s famed rings.
“Despite years of excellent observations by the Cassini mission, the precise beginning and duration of the spoke season is still unpredictable, rather like predicting the first storm during hurricane season,”While other planets have ring systems, Saturn’s are the most prominent which makes them a good laboratory for studying spokes.
“It’s a fascinating magic trick of nature we only see on Saturn – for now at least,”Next, Hubble’s OPAL program will add visual and spectroscopic data to Cassini’s archived observations. Putting these pieces together could paint a more complete picture of the spoke phenomenon and what it can tell us about the physics of planetary rings.
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