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Lookout | February | 2004 | Spokes | Saturn |
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Enceladus is surprisingly warm, internally fractured and active ...
- Carolyn Porco

[Of intense interest will be a Cassini determination of the periodicity in the appearance of spokes. This will require monitoring spoke activity from a variety of geometries over several years.] Cassini has found that the SKR period has changed since Voyager, which though hard to believe, may mean that the rotation of Saturn's interior has changed, ... That would be a finding of enormous consequence, so, we'll be looking very closely to see if the frequency of spoke activity has changed too.
- Carolyn Porco
