This Wild Thing Happens Only on Saturn

2024-06-24 765

Saturn's "spoke season" is a fascinating phenomenon that happens on its rings. These spokes are mysterious, dark, radial features that appear on Saturn's rings, resembling the spokes of a wheel. They show up when Saturn's equinox is approaching, which is about every 15 Earth years. Scientists think they might be caused by Saturn's magnetic field interacting with ring particles, but they're still not entirely sure. It's one of those cool space mysteries that keeps astronomers scratching their heads and looking up in awe. Credit:
An Infrared View of Saturn: NASA Hubble - https://flic.kr/p/2e6EEiR, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Infrared_View_of_Saturn.jpg
Inner solar system: Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inner_solar_system_objects_top_view_for_wiki.png
NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)
NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), the OPAL Team, and J. DePasquale
Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University
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