Saturn’s Magnetic Shield Is Not Where Anyone Expected It To Be.

This natural colour view of the planet Saturn was created from images collected by Cassini (Credit : NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

Saturn is one of the most recognisable and studied planets in the Solar System, it was the first thing I ever saw through a telescope and yet it is still finding ways to surprise us. New research analysing data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed a significant and unexpected quirk in Saturn’s protective magnetic bubble, one that confirms the giant planets of our Solar System play by completely different rules to Earth.

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