I'm in the middle of writing up a ton of stuff for the next couple of days, so let me just leave this here: a lovely image of Saturn and its moon Tethys and Enceladus, courtesy of Cassini:
[Click to encronosenate.] Sigh. So pretty. Tethys is the moon to the left, just above the rings, and Enceladus is right next Saturn, just below the rings. Cassini was just 1° south of the ring plane when it snapped this shot, so they appear very thin. It's approaching northern hemisphere summer for Saturn, though, so the Sun is shining down on the rings, and they cast a wide shadow on the planet's southern hemisphere cloud tops. I can't help noticing the long, thin, white ribbon of clouds about 2/3 of the way up Saturn's northern hemisphere. That looks very much like the remnants of the gigantic storm from late 2010 that was ...
