Sentences with phrase «ice particles orbiting»

The rings consist of countless numbers of ice particles orbiting above Saturn's equator.

Not exact matches

Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.

The other interesting thing is that there is a ring of dust or ice particles that surround Saturn right at the orbit of Enceladus.

Those collisions knock off ice particles and send them into orbit around Saturn, forming rings.»