{"id":12802,"date":"2010-03-23T19:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T19:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rhea%e2%80%99s-rings\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T19:56:51","slug":"rhea%e2%80%99s-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rhea%e2%80%99s-rings.php","title":{"rendered":"Rhea\u2019s Rings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/99f0f_cassini032310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><p>Are the blue patches evidence of a ring around Rhea?  Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute\/Universities Space Research Association\/Lunar &amp; Planetary Institute<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Does Saturn&rsquo;s second largest moon Rhea really have a ring?&nbsp;&nbsp; A ring has never been actually seen, but there is a narrow 10 km wide band of bluish patches straddling the moon&rsquo;s equator.<\/p><p>The picture above was produced by Dr. Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute using stereo topography from Cassini imaging data in 2008.<\/p><p>The idea is the bluish material is fresh ice exposed when debris from &ldquo;the ring&rdquo; struck the moon.<\/p><p>There was a close flyby of Rhea the day after this image was released.&nbsp; Since I&rsquo;m a skeptical sort,&nbsp; I am waiting for that data.&nbsp; If blue patches go all the way around the moon, they could be on to something.&nbsp; Rhea is phase locked to Saturn the same way our moon is to Earth.&nbsp; So it presents the same face towards the planet.&nbsp; It would seem to me that if the blue patches go all the way around the moon, they aren&rsquo;t simply the moon plowing through stray bits of debris from Saturn&rsquo;s rings.<\/p><p>A moon with a ring&hellip;.<\/p><p><a title=\"Visit the Cassini press release here\" href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=3901\" target=\"_blank\">See the original press release here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the blue patches evidence of a ring around Rhea? Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute\/Universities Space Research Association\/Lunar &amp; Planetary InstituteDoes Saturn&rsquo;s second largest moon Rhea really have a ring?&nbsp;&nbsp; A ring has never been actually seen, but there is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/rhea%e2%80%99s-rings.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}