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April 28, 2013

NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

Rings Act As Detectors Of Many Kinds Of Phenomena

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they occur.

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