The major rings of #Saturn are 280,000 km across but only ~10 m thick.
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) September 7, 2020
Small moonlets orbit between the rings, their gravitational wakes pushing ring material up to forming thin, blade-like ice towers.
And when the Sun shines just right... we can see their shadows on the rings. pic.twitter.com/xRH6NBgLYC
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September 07, 2020 at 10:47PM
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