New study points to Saturn’s rings disappearing in hundreds of millions of years – small tech news

According to news from IT House on May 26, the most iconic feature of Saturn is the rings of Saturn. According to 3 related published studies, based on the data collected by NASA’s Cassini (Cassini) mission, a related model was built.It shows that Saturn’s rings will disappear in hundreds of millions of years.

Hundreds of millions of years are too long for the human life cycle, and we are doomed to not be able to see such astronomical phenomena in our lifetime, but from the perspective of the cosmic time scale, hundreds of millions of years are not too long.

This point of view was proved in papers published in Science Advances on May 12 and in Icarus on May 15, and it is believed that Saturn’s rings will disappear in hundreds of millions of years.

Saturn’s rings are mainly composed of hundreds of millions of ice and rock fragments, known as “interstellar dust lanes”. And Saturn is “eating” the orbiting Saturn rings, and its suction is drawing these particles into the upper atmosphere, which will eventually enter Saturn completely.

IT Home attaches a link to the paper here, and interested users can click to read it.

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