Original Article on Wired Magazine

wpautop enabled By Mark Brown, Wired UKNASAs Cassini spacecraft has revealed mysterious kilometer-sized objects that punch through Saturns chaotic and ever-changing F ring, leaving trails of ice behind them.Cassini imaging team member Carl Murray, based at Queen Mary University of London, said in a press release that the jets unlock some secrets of the curious F ring.These latest Cassini results go to show how the F ring is even more dynamic than we ever thought. The F ring region is like a bustling zoo of objects from a kilometer in size to moons like Prometheus a hundred kilometers in size, creating a spectacular show.Astronomers have known that large objects like moons Prometheus and Pandora can create channels, ripples and sticky snowba...(read more)