Saturn’s rings are disintegrating and heating up the gas giant’s upper atmosphere, according to a new study whose findings may help predict if planets around other stars have ring systems.

Saturn’s signature ring system is heating the planet’s upper atmosphere. According to NASA, this phenomenon has never been seen in the solar system, and the unexpected interaction between ...

The discovery: Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere. The phenomenon has never before been seen in the solar system. It's an unexpected interaction between ...

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In Saturn's ring rain, gravity is slowly dragging the water ice from the inner rings into the planet’s upper atmosphere, where they vaporize. The inner rings will fall first and the outer rings ...

Source- NASA Hubble, CC SA 2.0. Saturn’s rings are disappearing, evidenced by an excess of ultraviolet radiation and the erosion of the planet’s upper atmosphere. Using observations of Saturn ...

Researchers looked at observations from Hubble as well as the Cassini and Voyager missions and saw more ultraviolet radiation than they expected in Saturn’s upper atmosphere, indicating heating ...

Saturn’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere constitute a complex system in which neutral and charged particles interact under the influence of external energy inputs, internal dynamics and ring ...

And finally during its fatal plunge we got our first direct measurements of the upper reaches of Saturn's atmosphere. Recently astronomers have put all together all that data to give us a hazy but ...

methane and ammonia.Saturn's winds are far stronger than those made by hurricanes on Earth, reaching an astounding 1,090 mph (1,755 km/h) around the upper atmosphere in the middle of the planet.

found that Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere. "The phenomenon has never before been seen in the solar system. It's an unexpected interaction between Saturn ...

the study authors peered through the haze of Saturn's upper atmosphere, hoping to find chemical remnants of the vast 2010 megastorm. In fact, the team found traces of all six recorded megastorms ...