Saturn's enormous rings are remarkably thin — ChillScroll

Saturn's rings seen edge-on as a very thin bright line

Saturn's enormous rings are remarkably thin

Saturn's rings stretch as far as 282,000 kilometers across, yet the main rings are usually only about 10 meters thick. They are made from billions of separate pieces of ice and rock.

From above: enormous. From the side: nearly a pencil line.

Source · NASA Science ↗