https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-down-at-saturns-rings/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:57:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-down-at-saturns-rings/#comment-1005257 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:57:17 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=47046#comment-1005257 A polar view like this is perfect combined with the ring plow. The ring plow is a projectile launched at Saturn at highest possible velocity, to plow right through it’s 10 meter thick rings. Then a polar orbiter could observe how that disturbance distorts the entire ring system. For ever. If those spirals are sliced off in one place, they might reconnect in new ways and unbalance everything. Maybe stripping Saturn of all of its rings within decades!? Or forming a new moon? Using the Solar system as a laboratory, not just for passive observations.

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