[Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA]
I am just a bit miffed that on my Celestia program Jupiter is just a solid gray disk.... argh
I’ve been waiting for you to post this. I saw the picture earlier today and it prompted a question.
Why is it that the plane of the rings appears to be at an angle to the rotation of the features on the planet ?
Dang. Nevermind.
I looked closely at the picture again and now see that the ‘rotation feature’ was not the atmospheric rotation, but the shadow of the rings on the upper half of the planet.
The first time I saw the picture, I was using a notepad and those screens are pretty small.
I went to the site and the words ‘razor blade’ are a link. I thought it would take me to a picture of the side of the rings being so utterly thin...it took me to a picture of a Gillette mach 3 razor. (Wiki)
Sheesh!
Ah, but boy, Saturn is lovely. Those rings are like a delicate skirt floating airly about her.