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Hi John, some more info for your interest regarding spokes within Saturns rings.
As Asimov has already mentioned this was a topic that recieved a fair bit of coverage on CN over the last couple of months.
I have been checking back through the CN forum and have put together a bit of a chronology of this matter. If you check the posts on CN that I will list below you will find animations that show what may be spokes within the ring system that are rotating with it.
Dec 23rd 2010, Freddy Willem posted a set of Saturn RGB images that Emil Kraaikamp put into an animation and posted within Freddy's thread, several people commented that they could see spoke structure in the animation.
Dec 26th 2010 I posted an animation on CN, my avatar is Kecktastic, Freddy commented that he could see spoke structure within the animation.
Dec 31 2010 Wayne Jaeschke posted a very hi res animation on CN that clearly showed spoke structure in the rings.
Jan 3rd 2011 Emil Kraaikamp avatar MvZ posted a hi res animation showing spoke structure within the rings on CN.
Jan 15th 2011 Brian Coombes posted a hi res animation showing spoke structure on CN
Jan 15 2011 Freddy Willem posted an animation showing the same spoke structure that appeared in Brian Coombes animation on the same date, Reckon that really does support the case that these are real and are spokes.
Jan 24th 2011 Brian Coombes posted an animation showing spoke structure within the rings.
Jan 24th I (Kecktastic) also posted an animation on CN that others thought showed spoke structure within the rings.
Some of the animations listed above are very hi res and definitly show structure within the rings. I must add that initially back in December I doubted that it was spoke structure but I have become a believer.
Some very pertinent facts to consider here relate to the fundamental cause of the spokes. As I understand it there is no broad consensus on this, however, if it is caused by electro magnet forces then it is most pertinent that at the time these "spokes" have been detected in amateur animations has coincided with the biggest, brightest, most intense electrical storm ever recorded on Saturn.
Thought this may have been of interest
Regards
Trevor
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