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January 31, 2017

One of the new close-up photos taken by Cassini on December 18, 2016. This photo shows part of Cassini's A ring, the outer of its two large rings, and is approximately 134 km from the planet. The photo was taken from a distance of 56,000 km . On the left side of the image you can see the route known by NASA as "straw", caused by small clusters of the tiny ice particles that make up Saturn's rings. The straw itself is visible on top of waves in the ring, which are created by the gravitational influence of the moons Epimetheus and Janus. In the rest The image shows the gravitational "traces" of the moon Pan.Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Saturn's rings are revealed in unprecedented detail in new Cassini images

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Aviv Lee Cohen-Zada. Photo: Ben Gurion University PR

Ramon scholarship for doctoral student Aviv Lee Cohen-Zada from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for the study of wind bands on the Earth

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