Data sent by the Cassini probe: the rings of Saturn are newly formed

According to a study published in the journal Science, the planet Saturn was formed shortly before, according to astronomical standards ranging from 10 to 100 million years, according to data from the Cbadini probe based in the United States.

If this period seems huge on a human level, but it is a small age of the universe, and even the age of the solar system and the planet and life who reigns there. In comparison, the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

Astronomers have had indications of the age of the rings of Saturn formed by the collision of the moons of Saturn or by an explosion near the planet.

But his exact age was one of the biggest mysteries of the solar system.

But the Cbadini probe, launched in 1997, has recently been able to collect data to calculate the age of the rings.

At the end of his mission, he came very close to the planet and his rings before collapsing into his atmosphere after the exhaustion of his fuel.

Thanks to the information he sent, scientists were able to measure the force of the planet's gravity on its rings and vice versa, and to deduce its mbades.

These summaries have been compared to other data that scientists have determined to determine age.

The US Space Agency (NASA) explained how scientists thought the group of rings indicates age. The older it is, the more the mbad increases with time.

Ice accounts for 99% of these episodes and the study does not provide a definitive answer to their origin. But this reinforces the answers presented in previous studies, namely that they were caused by the impact of glaciers.