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...thousand rings round Saturn, icy moons and lakes of liquid nitrogen...
...Nobody in their wildest imaginations ever dreamed of finding such features in the rings around Saturn," Allan F. Cook, associate of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday of the hundreds of unique ringlets recently discovered within Saturn's rings by researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
Voyager I's latest data transmissions also enabled the Pasadena scientists to determine that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a dense, extremely cold atmosphere, composed primarily of nitrogen. which might have allowed Titan to follow a development path similar to the earth...
...discoveries are coming fast. At a pre-encounter press conference last week, University of Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith announced two previously undetected moons-Saturn's 13th and 14th known satellites-probably no more than 320 km (200 miles) in diameter and 80,000 km (50,000 miles) above its clouds. The scientists also reported puzzling complexities-apparently less dense regions-in the planet's ring system; the varying speeds of material traveling in different portions of the rings should presumably smooth out such features, but somehow they survive for hours at a time. Finally, the scientists confirmed...
Voyager 1 will not be around for that spectacle. After sweeping within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of Titan, the spacecraft will plunge through the plane of Saturn's rings, soar past the moon Tethys, and on Nov. 12 come to within 124,000 km (77,174 miles) of the planet's cloud tops. Whipped by Saturn's gravity, the spacecraft will then swing quickly up and around the planet, photograph other moons, make a film of Saturn's swiftly moving clouds and rings and, finally, head out of the solar system...