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Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thoughtOver time, micrometeoroids — rocks smaller than a grain of sand hurtling through space — would have slammed into the bright icy particles making up Saturn's rings. The level of dirt seen on ...
Images by Cassini showed no evidence of any darkening of the rings by impacting micrometeoroids — space rock particles smaller than a grain of sand — prompting scientists to conclude the rings ...
Images by Cassini showed no evidence of any darkening of the rings by impacting micrometeoroids — space rock particles smaller than a grain of sand — prompting scientists to conclude the rings ...
Images by Cassini showed no evidence of any darkening of the rings by impacting micrometeoroids — space rock particles smaller than a grain of sand — prompting scientists to conclude the rings ...
Through computer modelling, the Institute of Science Tokyo’s Ryuki Hyodo and his team demonstrated that micrometeoroids vaporise once they hit the rings, with little if any dark and dirty ...
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