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The rings and where are the spokes?

Here's a Cassini picture from the opposite side of the rings' sunlit side:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA06532.jpg


Voyager took this sunlit side picture and here, we clearly see the spokes.

http://www.the-planet-saturn.com/pictures/saturns-rings-pictures-b.jpg


Here we don't see them either, but the sunlit side is the southern side of the rings, while Voyager visited Saturn when the northern side of the rings was exposed to sunlight.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05389.jpg

Weren't spokes related to magnetism?

Raoul

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