stackyFACTSIt is the ultimate cosmic illusion. Saturn's rings look like thick, majestic bands of solid matter from Earth, but they are essentially a razor-thin scattering of icy debris. If you shrank Saturn to the size of a basketball, the rings would be proportionately thinner than a single strand of human hair.
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