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31 Jul 2024 10:16:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PoVSolar: Saturn  
From: Alain
Date: 10 Nov 2009 12:01:00
Message: <4af99c4c$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
> 
> Rarius wrote:
> 
>> Your Saturn looks too spherical to me. Just remember that the gas 
>> giant planets are noticably non-spherical. Saturn, for example, has an 
>> equatorial radius of 60,268km but a polar radius of only 54,364km. 
>> Thats 10%!!!!
> 
> You're right... here is the corrected version (and I thought I had the 
> radii data not only in the planetary data array, but also in the scale 
> statement...)!
> 
> See you in Khyberspace!
> 
> Yadgar
> 
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> 

I just had a look at several actual images of Saturn. None of them shows 
that purple coloration where you look through the iner ring.



Alain


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