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Ringmakers of Saturn PDF - Patrick Crusade

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1. Cylindrical body<br />

2. Nose end<br />

3. Tongue<br />

4. Underbody emissions<br />

5. Roll filaments<br />

6. Roll-filament source<br />

RINGMAKERS OF SATURN<br />

7. Body projection<br />

8. Branch projection<br />

9. Sub-branch projection<br />

10. Streamlines<br />

11. Current lines<br />

12. Singular point<br />

Plate 39: Micro-photographic montage showing Iapetus subjected to an electro-potential field<br />

created by an electromagnetic vehicle.<br />

breadth, another manifestation <strong>of</strong> branches from the body projection<br />

are streamlines labeled (10). A streamline possesses the same electrical<br />

potential along its entire length; and various streamlines have different<br />

levels <strong>of</strong> potential. Current flowing from one potential level to another<br />

takes the shortest route. The result is that current lines, (11), arrange<br />

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