Question

Explain the history of the discovery of Saturn’s rings through the year 2006.

Answer 1

Sample Response: The rings were first seen by Galileo and were confirmed by Huygens. Scientific advancements in the 80’s allowed for the Voyager to get better images of the rings. By 2006, the Cassini probe showed faint rings never seen before.

Answer 2

NASA’s Cassini is a spacecraft that is specially designed to capture the wonders of Saturn.

Step-by-step explanation:

Cassini captured the ring-moon interactions where the moon Enceladus is the source of the Saturn’s rings. When the sunlight falls on the rings edge, the rings features are observed like never before at equinox.

The ring features are observed that are longer than the diameter of the Earth. The particles forming the rings of Saturn vary in sizes from a small sand particle to a large mountain.