What are Saturn’s Ring made of?
Published on 17 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 17th July 2010
What are Saturn’s made of ?
They are made of billions of pieces of ice, dust and rocks.
Some of these particles are as small as a grain of sail, while others are as big as houses.
These are so many of them that the rings look solid.
The rings shine because the ice particles in them reflect light by the Sun (average distance from the Sun :- 888 million miles).
The rings is visible to the naked eye for about 10 months of the year, it appears like a star and takes about 2.5 years to pass through one zodiacal constellation – a binoculars and telescope are needed to make out the ring system.
Saturn is located at the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), direction at the SouthWest horizon – see the Sky Map.
