Monday, 15 April 2013

Saturn's rings produce rain

It seems that the rings around Saturn are made up of electrically charged water droplets making Saturn able to make it's own rain astronomers have recently found out. This was discovered by the scientists at Leicester University

Originally it was known that there was water in the upper atmosphere but nobody seemed to have any idea where it was all coming from. Until now as the droplets fall from the ring and is expected to change Saturn's atmosphere and make up. The theory is that the water is pulled towards the planet's magnetic field.

I reckon this is a cool discovery. I didn't know what Saturn's rings were, I assumed is was made out of whatever a milky way is because I don't know too much about space. I want to see it rain on Saturn if it's possible because that would be awesome.

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