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Sure, 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
by Eriksrocks 7y ago
Sure, 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