Saturn's rings photo

NASA released on its website a new image F ring giant planet Saturn. Saturn rings are composed of ice and dust and are located in the equatorial plane of the planet. Saturn, which was made space station March 7, 2015. As reported at NASA, the picture was taken at a distance of 1.6 million kilometers from the planet's surface at an angle of eight degrees to the rings of Saturn. The solar system. Its average diameter is only slightly smaller than Jupiter and 58 is 000 km, but weight Jupiter Saturn yields more than three times and has a very low average density - about 0 7 g / cm3. Low density due to the fact that the giant planets are made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. On it, few people know, but far beyond the farthest from the familiar to all of Saturn's rings around the planet rotates another, almost invisible - but enormous. However, according to new observations, it is even more than scientists thought until now.