Something is disturbing the famed, majestic rings of Saturn as well as the lesser-known rings around Jupiter. The ring systems, which appear at first glance to be planar, wafer-thin bands of ice and dust, have on closer examination been found to be rippled, like a corrugated tin roof.
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A New Wrinkle: Comet Strikes in the 1980s and 1990s Left Ripples in Jupiter’s and Saturn’s Rings
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