I don’t think Jeff Wright’s theory works. The rays rotate, and they radiate out from Saturn, with the distortions sometimes seen in the image to the right. They also come and go, much faster than the rays on the Moon.

More point, the lunar rays are on solid ground. The rings of Saturn behave much more like liquid. Any theory has to take the fluctuations of liquid into account.

A glancing blow on shepherd moons with have debris off in a cone…part of which impinges upon the rings.

Since they revolve at different speeds, the ray distorts mechanically, perhaps.

On the Moon, the rays fall rather straight.

I thought that this might not be difficult in procuring the images: look’em up; load’em down. NASA or ESA must surely have an online library of these publicly-funded images. And, they do, but you have to specifically search for ‘raw’ images. That is the code to this page: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini-raw-images/; where you can use an amazing variety of filters to sort all of the quarter-million images from orbital approach, to final pictures. You can download the images, but the site warns that any downloads over 50 images requires a written (emailed) request, and ‘you will be notified’ when your download is ready.

I had thought to ‘stack’ the images by date, and insert them into a film program. 50 images is certainly enough to test the idea. You would need AI for image processing and matching. The raw images are decidedly lo-res, and not nearly as pretty as the ones polished for consumption. Most of the project would be doing what computers were built to do: repetitive tasks, quickly. I could see someone with ability and semi-pro equipment putting together a rough-cut in a couple of years. It would be a passion-project, though, as you would not be able to profit from it.

From the early images, one can see that the team played tourist, looking at various moons, before focusing on the planet.

The color change could come from the small particles aligning with this magnetic field. A sun bleached side facing one direction and the none bleached side turning to the other side.

Just a guess of mine.

Or its the solar systems largest advertising sign from the aliens. It spells out something like Eat At Joes.

I wonder if one of the Large Language Models (LLM) algorithms could collect every Cassini image in order, and produce a video of the entire 13 year trek in and out of the Saturn system.

Just a thought