بلغات أخرى
- الألمانيّة: Bedeckung
- الإنجليزيّة: Occultation
- الإسبانيّة: Ocultación
- الفرنسيّة: Occultation
- الإيطاليّة: occultazione
- البرتغاليّة البرازيليّة: Ocultação
- الصينيّة المبسطة: 掩星
- الصينيّة التقليدية: 掩星
وسائط ذات صلة
Rhea reappearing after occultation by Titan
الشرح: On October 27, 2009, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting around Saturn captured this view of Saturn's moon Rhea as it began to emerge after being hidden by Saturn's largest moon Titan during an occultation. An occultation is a celestial event in which one object moves in front of another and temporarily blocks the first object from view.
In this image, Titan — about 5,150 km across — was closer to the spacecraft at about 1 million km, while Rhea — roughly 1,528 km in diameter — was farther away at about 2.3 million km. Titan’s high-altitude atmospheric haze is visible as a faint glow around its limb, showing the difference in surface and atmospheric properties between these two moons.
Scientists study occultations like this because watching how one moon disappears behind or reappears from another helps refine our understanding of their orbits and physical characteristics.
المصدر: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
رابط المصدر
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