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Sat Oct 10 10:06:38 1981
Hot Zone
Voyager II has discovered a ringed zone ranging from 170,000
to 450,000 miles above the planet Saturn which contains the
hottest gases known in this solar system.  The gases range
in temperature from 600 million to 1 billion degrees Fahrenheit,
dwarfing the sun's surface temperate of 10,000.  They are
twice as hot as the plasma cloud on Jupiter, discovered in 
1979 by Voyager.

Scientists hope that this may provide an even better source
of energy than fusion power, the kind made by the sun.

The spacecraft was not destroyed on passing through the zone
because the area is not dense, and only a few particles hit
the ship.