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Saturn's colossal ring

A hitherto undetected disk of debris around Saturn is the largest ever found to be orbiting a planet. This ring may hold the key to one of the most enigmatic landscapes in the Solar System.

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Figure 1: Saturn's huge ring.

IMAGES COURTESY NASA/JPL-CALTECH

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Tiscareno, M., Hedman, M. Saturn's colossal ring. Nature 461, 1064–1065 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4611064a

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