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Solopos.com, JAKARTA – The latest information says Saturn may lose its rings in March 2025.
According to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) report in 2018, Saturn will probably lose its rings completely in the next 300 million years, or even sooner than that.
The latest information says Saturn may lose its rings in March 2025. But, this planet will not lose its rings forever. The rings will not be visible from Earth and will reappear soon after. The reason for this temporary disappearance has to do with Saturn’s tilt and optical illusions.
Saturn’s rings would not be visible from Earth because they would be perfectly aligned with our line of sight. Like Earth’s rotation axis which has an inclination of 23.5 degrees, Saturn’s rotation axis has an inclination of 26.7 degrees. Its giant ring system is also tilted to the plane of Saturn’s orbit.
As a result, as Saturn orbits the Sun, it appears to nod up and down when viewed from Earth, and the appearance of its rings is also constantly changing.
The rings will gradually become visible again as the planet continues to rotate around the Sun. This may happen because the rings are pulled into the planet by its gravity as a shower of dusty ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field, the report said. “We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water product that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour,” according to James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The report also adds that Saturn, which is four billion years old, got its rings much later as the rings are no more than 100 million years old. “We were fortunate to be able to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its life. “However, if the rings are transient, perhaps we are missing the giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which currently only have thin rings,” O’Donoghue added.
One of the most spectacular sights in the solar system is the majestic ringed planet Saturn, clearly visible in the night sky through a telescope.
Saturn takes 29.5 years to complete its orbit around the Sun and every 13 to 15 years, the edge of its rings aligns directly with Earth.
This article was published on Bisnis.com by title “The rings of the planet Saturn will disappear in 2025, how come?”
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