Saturn’s Ring System Cassini Division Anything but Empty
In a paper to be published in the Astronomical Journal, available online now here, astronomers detail the evidence for the structure (they call it the architecture) of the famed Cassini Division within the rings of Saturn. This gap in the rings of Saturn was named for the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Initially thought to be rather void of anything of interest, the latest imagery and spectrometry from the Cassini spacecraft has led astronomers using the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft to the discovery of “the radial position of the edges of all of these gaps and ringlets.”