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known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width. The rings' relative thinness and flatness is what allows them to vanish from view every few years due to both Saturn's and Earth ...

In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft reached orbit around Saturn after a seven-year journey ... measuring about 0.6 miles thick. Earth is approximately 200,000 times more massive than the rings.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields ... 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ... Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings Nov. 14, 2023 ...