Saturns rings and tilt may have been caused by the destruction of a moon

By Ellen Phiddian
September 18 2022 - 9:30am
Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Picture by NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team
Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Picture by NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team

What caused Saturn's rings and tilt? It might have been a moon destroyed over 100 million years ago, according to new research.

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