Saturn's Rings

From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. WHY are Saturn's rings so spectacular? It could be that the planet managed to cling onto a moon when all the other gas giants in our solar ...  

The beauty of Saturn's rings captured in music: 'Anillos,' a concerto will premiere at Cornell WHAT: "Anillos," a world premiere concerto that celebrates Saturn's rings and the Cassini exploration mission ...  

Saturn's enigmatic rings may be much older and also much more massive than previously thought, according to a new study. Because Saturn's rings look so clean and bright, it was thought the rings were younger than the planet itself, which is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old. But...  

Munster, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2008 - Saturn's rings may be more massive than previously thought, and potentially much older, according to calculations that simulate colliding particles in Saturn's rings and their erosion by meteorites.  

Music from the heavens: Enjoy the world premiere of "Anillos," a concerto for percussion and orchestra that celebrates the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, on Saturday, Oct.  

The study's computer simulation showed how the planet's rings could date back billions of years ago to the early ages of the solar system, rather than only 100 million years ago (during Earth's Age of Dinosaurs), as previous observations suggested. The calculations are consistent with recent...  

The team computed gravitational forces and collisions in a sample of more than 100000 icy particles in one of Saturn's rings. Rather than orbiting smoothly ...  

LONDON: Saturn's rings may be more massive and older than previously thought, researchers said on Tuesday.  

Saturn 's rings may be more massive than previously thought, and potentially much older, according to calculations that simulate colliding particles in Saturn 's rings and their erosion by meteorites ...  

In their own simulations, he and Elliot showed that collisions with micrometeorites both fragment the ring particles and coat them with dust. ...  

PASADENA, Calif. -- The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons, scientists said Friday.  

Kristina from Science News writes "Combining computer simulations with data about the way starlight shines through Saturn's rings suggests the individual grains are big and thus could have been around a good 4 ...  

Something that has bugged me lately is the idea that Saturn's rings are young, like maybe 100 million years old.  

WASHINGTON: Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn and confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon, which provides ...  

Cassini captures images of the faint rings. This Cassini image reveals the existence of a faint arc of material orbiting with Saturn's small moon Anthe.