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This is an artist's concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from Cassini magnetospheric imaging instrument. Image credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL
› Full image and caption Scientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn's giant magnetic field, finding that it is asymmetric and dynamic, unlike similar rings that appear around Earth. These results are published in the Dec. 13 issue of the journal Nature.

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Carolina Martinez 818-354-9382
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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