Saturn ring system
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The Saturn ring system is a vast, complex structure of countless icy and rocky particles encircling the planet Saturn in multiple distinct, finely detailed rings.
Observed surface forms (4)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A ring of Saturn | 2 |
| Rings of Saturn | 1 |
| Saturn's rings | 1 |
| rings of Saturn | 1 |
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical structure
ⓘ
planetary ring system ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composedOf |
rocky material
ⓘ
water ice ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Galileo Galilei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| furtherDescribedBy |
Christiaan Huygens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Giovanni Domenico Cassini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAge | likely less than 200 million years (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | high ⓘ |
| hasApproxInnerRadius | about 7000 kilometers above Saturn’s cloud tops ⓘ |
| hasApproxOuterRadius | about 140000 kilometers from Saturn’s center ⓘ |
| hasApproxRadialExtent | over 130000 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasApproxThickness |
typically less than 100 meters
ⓘ
up to a few kilometers in some regions ⓘ |
| hasColor |
mostly pale
ⓘ
slightly reddish in some regions ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
A ring
ⓘ
Anthe ring arc NERFINISHED ⓘ B ring ⓘ Bond Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ C ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Cassini Division NERFINISHED ⓘ Colombo Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ D ring ⓘ Dawes Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ E ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Encke Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ F ring NERFINISHED ⓘ G ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Huygens Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ Janus–Epimetheus ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Keeler Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuiper Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ Laplace Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxwell Gap NERFINISHED ⓘ Methone ring arc NERFINISHED ⓘ Pallene ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoebe ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Roche Division NERFINISHED ⓘ dusty rings ⓘ faint rings ⓘ icy rings ⓘ main rings ⓘ ring arcs ⓘ ringlets ⓘ shepherd moons ⓘ spokes ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryMethod | telescopic observation ⓘ |
| hasDynamicalFeature |
bending waves
ⓘ
density waves ⓘ propeller structures ⓘ resonance gaps ⓘ self-gravity wakes ⓘ spoke features ⓘ |
| hasMass | about 1.5×10^19 kilograms (order of magnitude) ⓘ |
| hasOpticalDepth |
high in A and B rings
ⓘ
low in C ring ⓘ very low in E, F, G rings ⓘ |
| hasParticleSizeRange | micrometer-sized dust to meter-sized boulders ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Daphnis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Enceladus NERFINISHED ⓘ Mimas NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pandora NERFINISHED ⓘ Prometheus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
gravitational interactions with Saturn
ⓘ
gravitational interactions with moons ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Cassini–Huygens spacecraft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hubble Space Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyager 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyager 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbits | Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Saturn system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceOf | E ring material from Enceladus plumes ⓘ |
| viewedFrom | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibleIn | small telescopes from Earth ⓘ |
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rings of Saturn
this entity surface form:
A ring of Saturn
this entity surface form:
rings of Saturn
this entity surface form:
A ring of Saturn
this entity surface form:
Saturn's rings