Saturn’s rings are so young that dinosaurs would have looked up at a ringless planet, and measurements from the Cassini probe suggest they are being pulled into the planet fast enough to disappear entirely
Cassini data point two ways at once: Saturn's rings look like a recent addition, younger than most of the dinosaur era, and they are draining into the planet fast enough to vanish. The post Saturn’s…
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