Saturn’s ring has smashed moon bits
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Big chunks of a moon that was smashed long ago, perhaps by a comet, have been detected in Saturn’s outermost ring, scientists reported Thursday in the journal Nature.
A camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft photographed wakes around these fragments, where other ring material has been affected by the pieces’ gravitational forces, they said.
The findings support the theory that the rings are made of moon debris.
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