<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>The Vanishing Rings of Saturn : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>The Vanishing Rings of Saturn : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-21T09:43:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Rings of Saturn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54959/1/" /><id>54959</id><summary><![CDATA[The Vanishing Rings of Saturn]]></summary><issued>2008-03-19T21:32:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-19T21:32:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.<br/><br/>Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.<br/><br/>Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn moon Rhea may have rings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/53421/1/" /><id>53421</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn moon Rhea may have rings]]></summary><issued>2008-03-06T21:48:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-06T21:48:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New observations by a spacecraft suggest Saturn's second-largest moon may be surrounded by rings. If confirmed, it would the first time a ring system has been found around a moon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[High energy electron holes reveal unseen rings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/51396/1/" /><id>51396</id><summary><![CDATA[High energy electron holes reveal unseen rings]]></summary><issued>2008-02-20T07:18:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-20T07:18:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gaps in the soup of high-energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn&#8217;s tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. A paper in the February issue of the journal Icarus suggests that the larger saturnian moons may not be the only ones contributing material to Saturn's ring system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Saturn's rings older than first thought?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44045/1/" /><id>44045</id><summary><![CDATA[ Saturn's rings older than first thought?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-13T00:00:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-13T00:00:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saturn's shimmering rings may be as old as the solar system, scientists said Wednesday, debunking earlier theories that the rings were formed during the dinosaur age.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New ring spotted around Saturn -- Old rings demoted, must now be called &quot;hoops&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/550/1/" /><id>550</id><summary><![CDATA[New ring spotted around Saturn -- Old rings demoted, must now be called &quot;hoops&quot;]]></summary><issued>2006-09-20T04:38:22+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-20T04:38:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saturn has a newly discovered ring, a faint trail of particles just visible in between some of its better-known rings, NASA said on Tuesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[See Saturn Now: Lord of the Rings Rocks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/51684/1/" /><id>51684</id><summary><![CDATA[See Saturn Now: Lord of the Rings Rocks]]></summary><issued>2008-02-22T09:32:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-22T09:32:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Saturn is now at its best in our late-winter sky. It appears below and to the left of the conspicuous &quot;sickle&quot; or backwards question-mark pattern of stars marking the head and mane of the constellation of Leo, the Lion.<br/><br/>What we see with the naked eye is a bright yellowish-white &quot;star&quot; shining with a steady light.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[More Strange Holes Found in Saturn's Rings ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39480/1/" /><id>39480</id><summary><![CDATA[More Strange Holes Found in Saturn's Rings ]]></summary><issued>2007-10-24T23:01:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-24T23:01:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The discovery of more oddly shaped gaps in Saturn's rings strengthens the case that one of the planet's moons was smashed to bits in an ancient collision. Shaped like airplane propellers, the gaps likely formed when &quot;moonlets&quot; as large as football stadiums plowed through Saturn's ring particles while orbiting the planet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn Has a 'Giant Sponge']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/49822/1/" /><id>49822</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn Has a 'Giant Sponge']]></summary><issued>2008-02-08T00:04:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-08T00:04:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Flying Saucers' Around Saturn Explained ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43478/1/" /><id>43478</id><summary><![CDATA['Flying Saucers' Around Saturn Explained ]]></summary><issued>2007-12-07T02:47:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-07T02:47:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our newborn sun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[3D Movie of Saturn's Rings During Ring Plane Crossing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35934/1/" /><id>35934</id><summary><![CDATA[3D Movie of Saturn's Rings During Ring Plane Crossing]]></summary><issued>2007-09-17T10:55:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-17T10:55:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This 3D movie was made from a sequence of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it crossed the plane of Saturn's main rings.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn's Rings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30649/1/" /><id>30649</id><summary><![CDATA[Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn's Rings]]></summary><issued>2007-08-08T10:14:10+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-08T10:14:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Saturn's G ring likely is produced by relatively large, icy particles that reside within a bright arc on the ring's inner edge.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rosie O'Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck argue on live TV (again)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/21286/1/" /><id>21286</id><summary><![CDATA[Rosie O'Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck argue on live TV (again)]]></summary><issued>2007-05-24T15:59:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-24T15:59:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So these two morons continue to attempt to grab fame by acting like idiots on The View.  <br/><br/>I am submitting this headline - it is real.  BUT I am linking it to an actual cool story about new stuff we have discovered about Saturn's rings.  <br/><br/>Hopefully, we can all ignore the two clowns and they will just go away.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn And 'Forbidden Planet' Movie Share Music]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40976/1/" /><id>40976</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn And 'Forbidden Planet' Movie Share Music]]></summary><issued>2007-11-07T19:37:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-07T19:37:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[High resolution observations of Saturn's radio emissions have just been made public by NASA. Listen to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/saturn/audio/pia07966-112203.wav" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NASA's Saturn radio emissions</a>, then listen to the classic 1956 science fiction movie <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIuc1_Qg4A8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Forbidden Planet</a>. The similarities are startling.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rings around Uranus captured in rare photo]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32967/1/" /><id>32967</id><summary><![CDATA[Rings around Uranus captured in rare photo]]></summary><issued>2007-08-24T12:03:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-24T12:03:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers have captured their first glare-free glimpse of Uranus's rings since they were first photographed more than 20 years ago by the Voyager spacecraft.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61134/1/" /><id>61134</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere]]></summary><issued>2008-05-08T23:00:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-08T23:00:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Seeds of life found near Saturn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55876/1/" /><id>55876</id><summary><![CDATA[Seeds of life found near Saturn]]></summary><issued>2008-03-26T21:19:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-26T21:19:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Planetary line-up excites the sun]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/67550/1/" /><id>67550</id><summary><![CDATA[Planetary line-up excites the sun]]></summary><issued>2008-07-02T22:44:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-02T22:44:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australian astronomers may have found a solution to how far-away Jupiter and Saturn drive the sun's solar cycle. Astronomer Dr Ian Wilson and colleagues suggest Jupiter and Saturn affect the sun's movement and its rotation, and hence its sunspot activity.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn's 'metronome' disrupted by the solar wind]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40988/1/" /><id>40988</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn's 'metronome' disrupted by the solar wind]]></summary><issued>2007-11-07T20:50:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-07T20:50:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the 1980s, NASA's Voyager spacecraft measured regular pulses of radio waves coming from Saturn every 10 hours and 39 minutes. That was close to the rough rotation rate scientists have obtained by tracking the motion of Saturn's clouds, suggesting the pulse period is tied to the planet's rotation rate. !!Sound and Video links!!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/70678/1/" /><id>70678</id><summary><![CDATA[Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA]]></summary><issued>2008-07-31T01:03:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-31T01:03:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 following a 3.5 billion-kilometer (2.2 billion miles) voyage.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Jupiter's Rings Are Shaped By Interplay Of Sunlight And Shadow]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60284/1/" /><id>60284</id><summary><![CDATA[Jupiter's Rings Are Shaped By Interplay Of Sunlight And Shadow]]></summary><issued>2008-05-01T09:35:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-01T09:35:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer rings. In a new study published, they report that a faint extension of the outermost ring beyond the orbit of Jupiter's moon Thebe, and other observed deviations from an accepted model of ring formation, result from the interplay of shadow and sunlight on dust particles that make up the rings.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mysterious Twist Found in Saturn's Electric Ring ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32962/1/" /><id>32962</id><summary><![CDATA[Mysterious Twist Found in Saturn's Electric Ring ]]></summary><issued>2007-08-24T11:28:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-24T11:28:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An invisible donut of trapped, hot particles surrounding Saturn is all bent out of shape--a finding that astronomers can't yet explain.]]></content></entry></feed>