... and in addition to the images, several Voyager instruments observed occultation's of the ring system with radial resolution as fine as 100 meters. The rings were named in order of their discovery and after the letters in the alphabet. From the planet outward they are called D, C, B, A, F, G, and E rings. ... on the beauty, complexity, and sometimes baffling nature of the rings. The six known rings are actually composed of hundreds of tiny, thin ringlets with intervening spaces, so that the whole ring system looks something like the grooves in a phonograph record. Even the Cassini divisio...

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