Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Gas Giant Itself: Study

by Lloyd Badon
3 months ago

Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Gas Giant Itself: Study

Saturn’s icy rings could be much older than they appear due to their resistance to pollution from impacts with rocky debris.

Hyodo et al. suggest that the apparent youth of Saturn’s rings could be due to pollution resistance, rather than indicative of young formation age. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Simon, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / M.H. Wong, University of California, Berkeley / OPAL Team.

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