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

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.