A really cool map.This near-infrared image of Saturn's rings See Saturn. See also: Ring , released by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. 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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