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To: SunkenCiv
It is not known why southern Saturn does not show the same blue hue

Is that a hint of blue I see on the right-hand side?
4 posted on 04/12/2014 10:01:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Sure, but it’s not the pure blue that you see in the north.

It occurs to me that since the sun is shining from the south, the illumination near the north and south poles is quite different, and one may certainly imagine that if the planet were tilted the other way, we would see the bluer appearance in the south.

It seems a simple point!

Well, it takes 15 years to go from one tilt to the other, and Cassini has been there for ten years, since 2004. Saturn was at equinox in September 2009, so the illumination right now is comparable to the illumination at arrival, with north and south switched. I guess this means that the comparison can be made, but it seems that the description we are given doesn’t address this question.


8 posted on 04/12/2014 10:48:59 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It’s so people can say, “blue hoo to you too”.


15 posted on 04/13/2014 12:01:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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