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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.

Pelican

@pelicanmerchant.bsky.social

Wait so there's actually a kind of solid part to the rings you could walk around on?

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

No. I mean, the pieces are solid(ish), but they're not really physically connected to each other. So it would be like trying to walk on a particularly aggressive cloud

30/9/26, 3:46 pm0 reposts2 likes

Pelican

@pelicanmerchant.bsky.social

Thanks for the clarification. That's... That's still so god damn amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge