Do you know that Saturn's ring will disappear in one billion years? Happy reading. Do you want to see Saturn's rings ?, hurry up !! Because a recent study shows that Saturn's ring will disappear in about 1 billion years from now, or about a quarter of the remaining age of the Sun, what causes it? The good news is, Saturn's ring will last 10 times longer than we previously thought that states that Saturn's ring will disappear in 100 million years from now. This finding was published in a paper in the Icarus journal, with a research team led by William Farrell from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA In his research, Farrell and his colleagues used data from the Cassini spacecraft. When it arrived in Saturn's orbit in July 2004, Cassini crossed the main and brightest ring, the B ring. It provided a unique opportunity to obtain unique plasma data from Ring B using an instrument called the Radio and Plasma Wave System (RPWS). it is known that Saturn's rings gradually lost material, Previous research using Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1980 and 1981 had stated this caused by interstellar debris that pounded the ring system, created plasma and released. However, Cassini found that plasma on Saturn's ring did not appear to be caused by interstellar debris, but from the sun's light which caused the photolytic process. The process creates plasma, which produces negatively charged electrons which are indicators of the disappearance of Saturn's rings from time to time, where the peak is 1 billion years from now. To confirm and confirm whether this theory is correct, astronomers are now waiting for data coming from Cassini. The unmanned spacecraft is currently carrying out a series of flyovers between Saturn and the ring. Cassini will again use the RPWS instrument in the series of flyovers. That way, in the near future Cassini will send valuable data that can tell us how long Saturn's ring will last.
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