💍 SATURN'S RINGS
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ICONIC RINGS
SATURN'S CROWN OF ICE
Saturn is famous for its rings. Through a small telescope they look like a flat halo around the planet. The rings are not solid sheets. They are made of billions of separate particles, mostly water ice, from dust-sized grains to chunks as big as houses. Each piece orbits Saturn like a tiny moon. Sunlight glints off the ice and makes Saturn the most beautiful planet in the sky.
💍 DISK
Saturn's ring system spans about 282,000 km from side to side, yet is only meters thick in many places.
JEWEL!
ICE
🧊 Mostly water ice particles
✨ Sunlight makes them shine
✨ Sunlight makes them shine
ORBITS
🔄 Each chunk has its own path
🪐 Gravity keeps them circling
🪐 Gravity keeps them circling