The rings consist of particles in orbit around the planet and are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component of rocky material. Particles range ...

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They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with other materials such as dust. The ring particles mostly range from tiny, dust-sized icy ...

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The rings are generally about 30 feet (10 meters) thick or so and are almost completely composed of billions (if not trillions) of chunks of water ice.

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Cassini found the rings to be composed of water, methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, molecular nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Saturns rings are made up of ice and rock particles that orbit the planet. The rings extend out from the planet roughly the distance from earth to the moon.

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Saturn's rings are made of billions of pieces of ice, dust and rocks. Some of these particles are as small as a grain of salt, while others are as big as ...

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We now know that Saturn's rings are composed of “particles,” mostly water ice and rocky fragments, some as small as a grain of dust, and others ...

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The rings could be debris left over from the tidal destruction of a former icy moon of Saturn or the remains of a comet that strayed too close ...

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They aren't solid, as they appear from Earth, but are instead made up of floating chunks of water ice, rocks and dust that range in size from specks to enormous ...

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