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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.

Kane (Minkmoding)

@kanexan.bsky.social

Wait the rings are *solid*?

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

No, no! They're countless septillions of small pieces of ice and rock dust. They're totally not solid. (The bits what comprise them are, and they'll shred you yessir.)

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