NASA's Cassini spacecraft and university researchers have offered an answer to the 4.5 billion-year mystery of Saturn's rings' origins. | ITV News Tyne Tees
A recent impact origin of Saturn's rings and icy moons:The 4.5 billion-year solar system mystery of Saturn's rings' origins may have finally been solved.
Dr Jacob Kegerreis, a Durham University graduate who is now a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, said: “There’s so much we still don’t know about the Saturn system, including its moons that host environments that might be suitable for life, so it’s exciting to use big simulations like these to explore in detail how they could have evolved.”
Dr Luis Teodoro, of the University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy, said: “The apparent geological youth of Saturn’s rings has been a puzzle since the Voyager probes sent back their first images of the planet. This collaboration has allowed us to examine the possible circumstances of their creation, with fascinating results.”
These hydrodynamical simulations were conducted using the SWIFT open-source software at a resolution more than 100 times higher than previous studies, giving scientists their best insights into the Saturn system’s history.
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