Here is something to think about with reference to Saturn's moon Daphnis and my earlier question about
it's interactions with the inner ring being opposite of the outer ring. I am wondering, first off, the speed
of the rings relative to the moon. That could be combined with something that i observed from CRT
experiments and the way that discharges of the surface behaved. Discharge was alway localized and limited
in direct proportion, in surface area, to the charge potential only discharged to that limit. For crater chains,
the first discharge created a full circle and adjacent discharges, if overlapping, only created a partial circle.
Imagine for a minute the rings having a state of charge potential and the moon offers a path. If the outer
ring were to be moving faster than the moon and the adjacent inner ring, might the moon be getting pulled along? As it approaches an area of the inner ring -that has not experienced 'regional discharging'- a discharge
is triggered.
This behavior was regularly observed in CRT discharge experiments. Movement of the probe relative to
the screen would trigger 'only' localized discharging.
In the case of the outer ring from Daphnis, if it is moving faster than the moon then new un-discharged
regions would be advancing on the moon. These factors, if actual to the system, might explain the
appearance of opposing regions of activity seen in the image.
Here again is the link to the image i'm pondering.
http://www.saturntoday.com/news/viewsr. ... ?pid=40860
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