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Discovery 7 years, 5 months agoOne Of The Four Gas Planets, Saturn, With The Most Magnificent Rings May Lose Its Rings In 300 Myr. Scientists From NASA Have Determined That The Rings, Which Formed Less Than 100–400 Myr, Is Being Lost As Rain From The Eroding Of Its Compositional Water Ice, Due To Ultraviolet Light From The Sun And Meteorites.
Chances are, you wouldn’t recognize Saturn without its trademark thick band of rings. That’s the conclusion of a new investigation into a phenomenon called “ring rain,” which pulls water out of Saturn’s rings and into the planet’s midlatitude regions. Combined with earlier research this year using Cassini data to look at a different type of inflow from the rings to the planet, that find means the stunning structures could be gone in as little as 100 million years.
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