In September 2006, Cassini took 70 individual narrow-angle camera images over a 20-hour period of Saturn’s G ring. The sequence captures the G ring’s single bright arc on its inner edge.

The G-ring is a faint and narrow circlet of debris located beyond Saturn's main set of rings. There is no obvious way it could have formed. Material for Saturn's E-ring is supplied by debris shed ...

Saturn, one of the most captivating planets in our solar system, is famous for its stunning and intricate ring system. These rings, composed primarily of ice particles, rocky debris, and cosmic ...

Saturn’s ring system is shown in clear detail along with several of the planet’s over 140 known moons—Dione, Enceladus, ... These include the thin G ring and the diffuse E ring.

NASA says Saturn's rings are disappearing as they're pulled in by gravity 00:42. NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its historic exploration of Saturn in 2017 and, slowly but surely, scientists are ...

Saturn's rings are named in alphabetical order, ... The slender F ring had to wait for Pioneer 11 to make its debut, and the most recently discovered ring, G, ...

Saturn’s rings will become nearly invisible from Earth by March 2025 due to Saturn's axis tilting, aligning the rings edge-on with our line of sight. This rare event occurs every 29.5 years and ...

A loosely knit band of roving ice boulders in orbit around Saturn could be providing the raw material for one of the planet's rings, scientists say. The finding, detailed in the Aug. 3 issue of ...

Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found two new, partial rings around Saturn that each accompany a small moon, shedding light on what determines whether a partial or complete ring forms with the moon.

— -- A loosely knit band of roving ice boulders in orbit around Saturn could be providing the raw material for one of the planet's rings, scientists say. The finding, detailed in the Aug. 3 ...

Saturn's rings are mostly made up of ice, asteroids, comets and moon fragments. In May 2025, the massive celestial loops will be effectively invisible to the human eye.