Weird Fact

Saturn's Rings Are Razor-Thin

Saturn's rings span 282,000 km — wide enough to fit the Earth–Moon distance 75 times. Yet their average thickness is only about 10 metres. Scaled to a football field, the rings would be thinner than a sheet of paper.

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