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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Saturn has been turning almost alone for billions of years before buying incredible rings, a new study has revealed.
According to the team of Italian scientists in the journal Science, the first rings of Saturn will probably only be 10 to 100 million years old.
Saturn is about 4.5 billion years old, like all the other planets in the solar system. Scientists have relied on this information to draw on NASA's Cassini probe observations during its flight around Saturn and its rings in 2017, before the end of its work.
Scientists have determined the lifespan of rings by evaluating their mass using gravitational measurements. It is still not known how the ice rings formed.
"The facts are another gift from this beautiful space mission," said Luciano Aes, a researcher at the University of Sabinza in Rome.
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