Saturn Ring Rapidly Creates and Destroys its Moonlets : DNews — news.discovery.com

We often view the solar system as constant and unchanging, at least over human time scales. This, of course, is not entirely accurate and astronomers have detected a surprisingly rapid phenomenon inside one of Saturn’s rings: moonlets the size of mountains are created and destroyed over a matter of days or even hours. This discovery centers around the gas giant’s F-ring where, over the course of 30 years, has dramatically changed its morphology.

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