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A really cool map.


This near-infrared image of Saturn's rings See Saturn.

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, released by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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 on Sept. 2, provides the most detailed temperature map ever taken of the icy particles encircling encircling (en·serˑ·k  the planet. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft on July 1, the false-color image shows the unlit surface of the rings, where temperatures vary from 70 kelvins (blue) to 110 kelvins (red). Water freezes at 273 kelvins. The opaque regions, such as the A ring (outermost out·er·most  
adj.
Most distant from the center or inside; outmost.


outermost
Adjective

furthest from the centre or middle

Adj. 1.
 green region) and the middle, or B, ring (shades of blue and green) are cooler than the transparent regions, such as the Cassini-division ring, shown in red just inside the A ring, and the Innermost, or C, ring, depicted in red. Temperature differences, evident even within individual rings, arise because the opaque areas let through less sunlight than the transparent regions do.
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Title Annotation:This Week; map of Saturn's rings
Author:Cowen, Ron
Publication:Science News
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 11, 2004
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