While floating at the top of Saturn's atmoshpere, within the plane of the rings (so directly "below" them), looking toward the rings, what do you see?

I had started a similar topic here :
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...c.php?p=410607

But then I realised that I was more interested in what really happens and not wether or not the software was accurate, so I figured I better start a new topic.

[edited to fix grievious bad astro on my part. i will punish myself appropriately.]

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Surface?

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When I am done here I think I will go create something from metal.

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Will "top of the atmosphere" do?

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well, as i fall through the atmosphere, will I be able to look up and see the rings?

Cause I'm gonna be falling for a few minutes. I might as well keep myself occupied.

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If you´re atop the atmosphere, in space, you would see a black strip eclipsing the Sun and the blackness of space all around. As you dive into the atmosphere you´ll have an obscured strip in the zenith, clearing out as you look to the horizon. It would be pretty gloomy in the shadow of the rings. That kind of eclipse occurs only twice in a Saturnian year (at the equinoxes), as the sun crosses the equator.

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I should explain my post: I´m describing what you would see at the equinox, the only time when you could (indirectly) see the rings, standing beneath them. The rest of the time it would be the blackness of space.

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Would it? I would think that at times other than the equinox you'd see some sort of diffuse glow where the rings are.

while on the topic.. i wonder what a time lapse photo would look like.. if it's a glow, something like even a 30 second exposure might make it seem opaque

Yes, you may be right. My description wasn´t complete. But I still think that glow would be more noticeable, if so, when the sun is over one of the tropics.

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