Solar system: Recipe for making Saturn's rings

Charnoz, Sébastien; Crida, Aurélien

France

Abstract

Simulations show that the still-mysterious origin of Saturn's vast, icy rings could be explained by the 'peeling' by Saturn's tides of the icy mantle of a large satellite migrating towards the planet. See Letter p.943

2010 Nature
Cassini 10