Could the destruction of a large icy moon explain both Saturn’s tilt and its rings?

Saturn’s rings are arguably the most gorgeous and spectacular structures in the solar system. They’re so flat — proportionally thinner than a single sheet of paper — that when they’re edge-on we can’t see them at all; if it weren’t for the fact that Saturn is tilted so we see them at an angle they’d be nearly invisible.

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Published on September 16, 2022 06:00
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