Talk:Solar eclipses on Saturn
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“ | The seven out of nine satellites of Saturn; Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Rhea, Dione, Titan and Iapetus would pass the solar disk and capable of producing shadows in the form of eclipses, the smaller ones are the same as would pass the solar disk while the distant moons are too small and too distant to be able occult the Sun, so can only transit the Sun. | ” |
I don't understand "are the same as ..."
“ | Most of the more distant satellites also have orbits that are strongly inclined to the plane of Saturn's orbit, and would rarely be seen to transit. Powerful telescopes are needed to see the spectacular event. | ” |
Powerful telescopes are needed to see it from where? (And if so, what's spectacular about it?
“ | Even spacecrafts can observe this spectacular event like the Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (1980 and 1981) and Cassini-Huygens (2004-present) to show the transits of their moons. | ” |
Unless this sentence means the probes have seen transits (rather than could see them), I'd remove it. —Tamfang (talk) 02:19, 5 June 2012 (UTC)