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The rings of Saturn are the most extensive and complex ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, [1] that orbit around Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component of rocky material.
22 de sept. de 2017 · Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Scientists have ideas about why Saturn has rings, but no one knows for sure. What are Saturn's rings made of? Are they solid like the CD you used to make your model? Or are they made of many particles dancing in formation around the planet?
Saturn’s Rings: Young and Ephemeral, Three NASA Ames Studies Say.
29 de ago. de 2005 · The rings of Saturn make up an enormous, complex structure that – from edge-to-edge – is wider than the distance from Earth to the Moon. The seven main rings are labeled in the order in which they were discovered; from the planet outward, they are D, C, B, A, F, G and E.
8 de nov. de 2017 · Saturn's rings are made up of billions of particles ranging from grains of sand to mountain-size chunks. Composed predominantly of water-ice, the rings also draw in rocky meteoroids as they...
Key Points. The particles that make up Saturn’s rings range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains. Cassini found that water jets from the moon Enceladus provide much of the material in Saturn’s E-ring, a diffuse ring outside of the bright, main rings.
The particles in Saturn's rings are composed primarily of water ice and range from microns to metres in size. The rings show a tremendous amount of structure on all scales; features like spokes and irregular ripples, are puzzling.
