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Can you fly in the rings of Saturn?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

THROUGH the rings of Saturn? I wouldn't recommend it; the rings are made of, technically speaking, "jillions" of rock and ice particles, all orbiting together. We do not yet know how closely the rocks are spaced; you might make it through, but might not. You might fly a spacecraft BETWEEN the rings, since there are several individual "rings" with some gaps between them.

Some of the interesting photos of the Cassini spacecraft currently in orbit around Saturn show some debris showers where SOMETHING passed through the rings, and scattered some of the material.

But it would be a great experiment to do, with a space probe that was at the end of its life and nearly out of fuel, to see what would happen. Eventually, we'll need to know if it can be done.

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14y ago

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