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Rings of Saturn

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Because, despite appearances, the rings aren't . Each ring is made up of hundreds of and each ringlet is made up of . Caught within the of Saturn's gravity, the ring particles orbit around the planet in an thin layer. [Dialogue] But the similarity doesn't end with the layout. It also in what the rings and the icebergs are made of and that explains why the . Well, this is why we can see Saturn's rings from because this is what they're made of: they're made of beautiful, pure, water-ice in the sunlight. Billions of these pieces a billion kilometres from earth. Most of the are, well, smaller than that; less than a . Many are micron-sized ice . Some are as big as this . Some are as big as . Some can be over a kilometre . Imagine sitting on one. Imagine if this a piece of Saturn's rings? What a view! This is the we can get to Saturn's rings on earth and the view would be : Billions of chunks of ice shining brightly as they the sunlight. And the reason the rings shine so brightly is , like the icebergs, the rings are . As the ring particles orbit Saturn, they're continually each other and collecting into giant that are endlessly forming and breaking . As they collide, the particles , exposing bright new of ice that catch the sunlight. It's because of this constant that the rings are able to stay as and as they were when they formed.