When Saturn’s Rings Disappear from View
When seen edge-on, Saturn’s rings all but vanish, as this beautiful image, captured NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and compiled by amateur astronomer Fernando Garcia Navarro, clearly illustrates. Saturn’s rings are about 175,000-miles across, but just 3,200-feet thick. Think about that for a moment. The ratio is mind-boggling. If you had a model of Saturn that was…
