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| | NASA Cassini Radio Signals Decipher Saturn Ring Structure | Saturn Today - Your Daily Source of Saturn News |
 | | The origin of Saturn's rings is a mystery. The rings are an enormous, complex structure. |
 | | From edge-to-edge, the ring system would not even fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon. The seven main rings are labeled in the order they were discovered. From the planet outward, they are D, C, B, A, F, G and E. |
 | | Cassini also detected more than 40 wavy features called "density waves" in ring A, many near its outer region, close to the moons orbiting just outside the ring. The density wave observations will tell more about the ring surface mass density, its vertical thickness and other physical properties. |
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