Phenomenon
Planetary Rings
TypePhenomenon
LocationAround all four giant planets
About Planetary Rings
Billions of ice and rock chunks circling in thin sheets. The rings of Saturn span 282,000 km yet average just 10 meters thick. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune wear faint narrow rings, and Chariklo proved even small bodies can hold them.
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