Posted on 12/18/2018 7:29:48 PM PST by EdnaMode
Saturn's rings make it one of the most striking planets in the solar system, but scientists believe they could disappear in less than a 100 million years -- which isn't all that long when you consider that the gas giant itself is more than 4 billion years old.
New research from NASA shows that the rings, made predominantly of water ice, are being pulled apart by the planet's gravity and onto Saturn's surface as deluges of "ring rain."
"We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour," NASA's James O'Donoghue, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
"From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn's equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Domino effect from us producing too much Carbon.....messed with Mars, which messed with Jupiter and now it’s toppling Saturn....
I never liked the rings anyway.
I knew Trump was making those rings shrink!
Their origins have long been debated among scientists. Some suggest it was formed around 4 billion years ago -- at the same time as the planet and the rest of the solar system -- but others suggest they surrounded the planet many years after the solar system's birth.
What this study indicates is the rings were formed around the planet less than 100 million years ago. "We are lucky to be around to see Saturn's ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime," O'Donoghue said.
If correct, yes -- we are simply lucky enough to have been around at the right time.
They will actually be brought to Justice before then but probably not in their lifetime.
Not to worry, space faring Earthlings will have stripped the water from the rings within a few centuries for fuel and drinking water.
“SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!”
From Huffington Post: “Trump will be having a summit with Saturn’s totalitarian regime to dismantle the rings, saving billions of quakloons a decade. That money will be redirected to the US Space Command and the Space Command Core of Engineers to build planetary shields to protect Earth and Saturn from illegal space aliens. Scientists anticipate 5-7 billion space migrants are women and children with less than 8 tentacles and will be negatively impacted by this.”
Ring around the planet! Ring around the Planet! Don’t worry. A good detergent will get rid of it. What? That was “ring around the collar?” Oh! Never mind.
“Saturn Losing its rings, and why it’s troubling for Trump Administration”, The Hill.
There are evidences of energy changes demonstrated at just about every planet in the solar system, yet we are in an age of scientific kindergaten in how current science does not fathom there is a commong solar reason for all of them.
Haha that does sound like something they would write.
It’s doing quite well, thank you.
Those Saturnese must be Trump lovers.
Like an old photograph record, that giant stylus on the far side of the planet is wearing down the rings
What is Saturn's carbon footprint these days? Algore might know.
NASA warns
Why are we being warned?
That was my first thought.
Only more taxes will stop Saturn from losing it’s rings.
Ringist!
Heh, not hardly. If the rings are going to be gone in 100 million years, and Saturn is 4.5 billion years old, that's less than 2 percent of the age of the planet, iow, the rings are probably not very old, either.
Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing | NASA Goddard | YouTube | Published on Dec 17, 2018 | Scientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called "ring rain." Learn more about this phenomena in this animated video. | Video Produced & Edited by: David Ladd | Saturn Ring Rain Animations by: Lisa Poje | Additional Animations by: NASA's Conceptual Image Lab & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Video narrated by: Jerome Hruska | Music Provided by Killer Tracks: "The Butterfly Effect" - Gresby Race Nash
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