Saturn’s Ring Rain Rates Run Fast

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Saturn’s gravity keeps vacuuming up its own stunning rings. NASA scientists have estimated how fast this process happens. The rings lose six Olympic-sized swimming pools-worth of material every hour according to new results from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.1 For this and other reasons, scientists have concluded that the rings are unlikely to be more than 100 million years old. These rings look young, forcing sc… More…

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