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Saturn’s Rings May Be Old As Solar System

CU-Boulder’s Larry Esposito discusses the observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft which indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system was still under construction.

Saturn’s Rings