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Slightly off topic, but one of my favorite solar system facts is that the with of Saturn's rings can be measured in feet. They are much thinner than I ever expe
by dnadler 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but one of my favorite solar system facts is that the with of Saturn's rings can be measured in feet. They are much thinner than I ever expected.
- Eriksrocks 7y agoSure, if you consider 3,200 feet as "measured in feet" [1]. Anything can technically be measured in feet. When you said that I assumed you meant they were like 20-30 feet thick, not over half a mile. [1] http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/108-How-large-are-Saturn-s-rings-#targetText=Saturn's%20rings%20are%20about%20175%2C000,between%20Earth%20and%20the%20Moon http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/108-How-large-are-Sat....
- dwaltrip 7y agoThat's still pretty damn thin, relative to the size of the rings. An interesting quote from your link: "If you had a model of Saturn that was a meter stick wide (3 feet), its rings would be about 10,000 times thinner than a razor blade!"
- dnadler 7y agoFrom a NASA website[0]: Saturn’s rings are incredibly thin. The main rings are generally only about 30 feet (10 meters) thick, though parts of the main and other rings can be more than a mile, or several kilometers, thick. [0] https://hubblesite.org/quick-facts/all-quick-facts https://hubblesite.org/quick-facts/all-quick-facts