Tag: atmospher

  • Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn’s rings changing planet’s upper atmosphere

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    Political humorist Mark Russell once joked, “The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” Well, there’s no luggage, it turns out. But a new study appearing in Science based on data from the final orbits last year of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the rings of Saturn […]

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