Saturn’s moon also have rings.

Posted on March 9, 2008 at 12:05 pm.
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SaturnSaturn’s second largest moon Rhea also have rings. The rings discovered when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft fly close to Rhea. Rhea is roughly 1 500Kms in diameter. The apparent debris disk measures several thousands of Kilometers from end to end. One of the Cassini scientist Candy Hansen commented about the discovery that”The diversity in our solar system never fails to amaze us,”.

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