<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>The Vanishing Rings of Saturn : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Vanishing Rings of Saturn : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Rings of Saturn]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54959/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn moon Rhea may have rings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53421/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[High energy electron holes reveal unseen rings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51396/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New ring spotted around Saturn -- Old rings demoted, must now be called &quot;hoops&quot;]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/550/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Saturn Now: Lord of the Rings Rocks]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51684/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Saturn's rings older than first thought?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44045/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Strange Holes Found in Saturn's Rings ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39480/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn Has a 'Giant Sponge']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49822/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA['Flying Saucers' Around Saturn Explained ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43478/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[3D Movie of Saturn's Rings During Ring Plane Crossing]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35934/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassini Finds Possible Origin of One of Saturn's Rings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30649/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosie O'Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck argue on live TV (again)]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/21286/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61134/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeds of life found near Saturn]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55876/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn And 'Forbidden Planet' Movie Share Music]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40976/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rings around Uranus captured in rare photo]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32967/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planetary line-up excites the sun]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67550/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot spot on Enceladus causes plumes]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44687/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after all. In fact, for researchers of the outer planets, Enceladus is so intellectually hot, it's smokin'.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26625/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A virtual game version of those plastic stacking rings you had as a toddler. But more fun.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn's 'metronome' disrupted by the solar wind]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40988/1/</link><description><![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!!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70678/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item></channel></rss>