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F Ring and Prometheus

Last saturday in Paris, one of the F-Ring and Prometheus pictures was shown and there was a tentative explanation of what was seen.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS02/W00000374.jpg


Could it be that Prometheus goes inside the F-Ring, provoking those dark spokes visible in the picture, and back outside in an endless yo-yo around Saturn? Or is it the F-Ring stroking Prometheus off and on? I saw an animation showing the F-Ring with undulations, kind of like a whip.
It's going to take time to interpret all those pictures!

Raoul

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