Re:NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of...
by Sharlin on Friday December 21, 2012 @02:45PM
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Yes; you're looking "up" but surely there are no missing rings - they are actually visible against the planet as silhouettes. They are dark because they're in the planet's shadow.
Re:NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of...
by natex on Friday December 21, 2012 @01:05PM
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I agree, but this helped. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952908
I can better appreciate the view now.
I'd like to see other renderings.
edit: I think there is a bit of an optical illusion, part of which is happening because of the over-saturation of the corona. The image makes more sense if you soom out a bit and understand you are looking <up> at the planet from the souther hemispher (ie, below the equator/rings belt). The missing rings should be in the fore-ground but are absent due to shadow. Again, the corona;s colour saturation is so strong it throws the image constuct off when looking at it in more magnification.