The snapping back heats plasma around Saturn and the heated plasma becomes trapped in the magnetic field. It rotates around the planet in islands at the speed of about 100 kilometers per second ...

On Saturn, Cassini is telling us that the magnetic field and the rotational axis are almost perfectly aligned and yet Saturn has a rather large magnetic field. Scientists are not sure why that is ...

2004-06-29 04:00:00 PDT Pasadena-- The spacecraft called Cassini, now little more than a million miles from Saturn, is already establishing that the mysterious ringed planet's magnetic field is ...

Saturn stands out among the planets in our solar system because its magnetic field appears to be almost perfectly symmetrical around the rotation axis. Detailed measurements of the magnetic field ...

The Cassini spacecraft is carrying out its Grand Finale mission. This task involves sending the probe in between Saturn and its rings 22 times to learn more about how the planet works. Once the job is ...

Saturn’s rings are being pulled into the planet by its gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field, confirming the findings made by Voyager 1 & 2 ...

Saturn, a gas giant that is 4 billion years old, ... "The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field," NASA said.

We know that the solar system's gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) have strong intrinsic magnetic fields.However, it's a little more complicated for the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...

The magnetic fields of Earth, Saturn and Jupiter are similar in that they all have a funnel-shaped geometry. This causes energetic particles like electrons in the solar wind to precipitate into ...

A photo of Saturn taken by the Hubble Telescope last October. Small dark marks called ring spokes are visible on the planet's left side, just inside the widest black band of space between rings.