How did Saturn get its rings?
Channel: Jonti Horner
Date: 2019-12-04

A question from curious kid Samuel, who asks 'How did Saturn get its rings?'

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Background images: 

1. Saturn from the Cassini Spacecraft
https://cosmos-images1.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/20383/190917-Saturn_rings_full.jpg?ixlib=rails-2.1.4&auto=format&ch=Width%2CDPR&fit=max&w=1080
Author: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE  
Licensing: Public Domain

2. Saturn's Rings 
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17553/saturns-rings/
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Licensing: Public Domain
[Note: The version at the NASA website is animated, identifying and highlighting the individual rings, one after the other]

3. A total eclipse of the Sun, at Saturn from Cassini
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_eclipse.jpg
Author:  NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Licensing: Public Domain

4. A Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA01272
Author: NASA/JPL/STScI
Licensing: Public Domain

5: Artist's impression of Cassini at Enceladus
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20170413/cassini20170412.jpg
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Licensing: Public Domain