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4 unusual facts about rings of Saturn


Battlecross

Following a Metal Blade Records Showcase at SXSW in March 2012, the band was announced to open Occupation Domination, a full United States Tour with Headliners Origin (band) and support bands Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth and Rings of Saturn.

Giuseppe Colombo

Colombo also made significant contributions to the study of Saturn's rings, mostly using ground-based observations in the era before space exploration reached the outer solar system.

Opposition surge

In the case of planetary rings (such as Saturn's), an opposition surge is due to the covering of shadows on the ring particles.

Satellite collision

The objects making up the Rings of Saturn are believed to continually collide and aggregate with each other, leading to debris with limited size constrained to a thin plane.


Brave Saint Saturn

The Saturn 5 Trilogy tells the story of a fictional NASA "Saturn 5 Mission," where the crew of the spacecraft "Gloria" is sent to map the rings of Saturn.


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