Space dust may be able to tell scientists the age of the awe-inspiring phenomenon.
concluded that the rings couldn’t be solid, but were actually made up of many individual pieces.
Throughout the 20th century, it was assumed that the rings came about at the same time as Saturn. This raised some questions, particularly why the rings were sparkling clean. To figure out why, the team on this study looked closely at an object that annoys allergy sufferers and neatniks alike–dust. Tinyand this flux of material can leave behind a thin layer of dust on planetary bodies– including Saturn’s icy rings.
“Think about the rings like the carpet in your house,” study co-author and physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder Sascha Kempfsaid Kempf . “If you have a clean carpet laid out, you just have to wait. Dust will settle on your carpet. The same is true for the rings.”
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