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This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.

Rarian Rakista

@rakista.bsky.social

Could you ski down them?

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

No. They'd fall apart like a shitty Soviet car. Plus you'd accelerate towards the ring plane and start to be shredded by all the little dickhead particles. You'd die in like, four different ways. You would, however, probably get a school named after you.

30/9/26, 2:55 am0 reposts20 likes

Kevin Leroux

@lekevbo.bsky.social

Well, vacation canceled.

Isaac Rabinovitch

@isaac32767.picknit.com

Is there even enough gravity to attract a skier toward the ring plane?