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Cassini is very small, compared to pretty much everything around Saturn. So, no. You could drop a billion Cassini spacecrafts into the rings without perturbing
by Eerie 10y ago
Cassini is very small, compared to pretty much everything around Saturn. So, no. You could drop a billion Cassini spacecrafts into the rings without perturbing anything.
- hackuser 10y agoI don't mean that Cassini will shift a moon from its orbit, but the introduction of foreign materials, for example, could change things. Perhaps I'm putting too much emphasis on the naturally pristine state of things around Saturn, but I've read that also is a priority of researchers, at least in some circumstances.