Explain me the Saturn Rings like I’m five. Is it kind of land surface?

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Explain me the Saturn Rings like I’m five. Is it kind of land surface?

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It kinda looks like a land surface from far away, but that’s only because it’s so big and also far away. It’s actually millions and billions of pieces of rock and dust that’s actually pretty spread out if you were right next to it.

Don’t think of it as a hula hoop. Think of it like a really wide and flat tornado.

Anonymous 0 Comments

You seem to be asking about the composition of the ring rather than the how & why. Sand, pebbles, rocks, boulders, moonlets and fragments, all orbiting the planet. If you were up close it wouldn’t look like a flat ring at all, just a jumble of junk, but all close enough together to appear as a ring when you step back.