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Ringing Up New Discoveries
A wide swath of Saturn's rings and a sliver of the planet's southern hemisphere form a beautiful tableau in this recent image from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn for more than five years. The craft recently discovered that the rings contain vast walls, sculpted by the gravity of some of its small moons, that are a couple of miles high. [NASA/JPL/SSI]
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