If you thought the rings surrounding Saturn were impressively large, and then the word imposing just took on a whole new meaning appreciation to eye-popping imagery was taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
More pointedly, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has discovered images showcasing a huge ring orbiting Saturn that reaches approximately eight million miles from the planet and consists of miniscule migrated particles of dust along with the ice kicked up from meteor and comet impacts upon Saturn’s moon in Phoebe.
“The particles are very, very minute, so the ring is very, very tenuous; and actually if you were footing in the ring itself, so you wouldn’t even know it,” commented Dr. Anne Verbiscer who is from the University of Virginia
Situated at the very edge of the Saturnian system also orbiting on a 27-degree tilted angle when compared to Saturn’s recognized band of closely situated rings, the newly photographed ring is, as per the JPL spokesperson, “very diffuse and does not reflect much visible light apart from the infrared Spitzer telescope was able to detect it.”
The almost hardly noticeable ring of dust is whispered to have a super cold temperature of minus 316 degrees Fahrenheit to a large extent of the ring orbiting at a distance of 3.7 million miles from Saturn as well as stretching out by a further 7.4 million miles.
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