Scientists announced this weekend that it would be different from Saturn’s usual image. Saturn’s rings will not appear with naked eye or low -power telescopes. Experts, this situation due to the position of the planets is an optical illusion, he said.
Saturn has a 26.73 degree slope in its orbit, while the Earth’s slope is 23.5 degrees, scientists said that when the two planets came to a certain level during the movements of the Sun, Saturn’s rings became almost completely horizontal. Thus, the rings were almost invisible.
Michigan State University Director of Abrams Planetary “As Saturn and the Earth revolve around the Sun, we will be in a position to see the rings of Saturn from time to time. When the rings are extremely thin, it becomes almost impossible to see them.”
It was stated that this rare sky incident would become the most prominent in the last week of March and the rings would seem almost completely lost until April.
