Love Saturn rings? They will be DESTROYED; NASA reveals when

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While you may struggle to identify some planets in our solar system purely by their picture, you will definitely not face the same problem with Saturn due to its beautiful rings. But shockingly, NASA scientists believe that the Saturn rings will not be here forever. In fact, amazingly, Saturn rings are being destroyed right now at this very moment! It is hard to imagine Saturn without its characteristic rings surrounding it, but it appears that is where the planet is headed for. And this will happen due to a strange phenomenon called the ‘ring rain’. Read on to find out what it is and when exactly will Saturn rings will be lost forever.

The destruction of Saturn rings has been an ongoing process spanning millions of years and is not a new development. The rings are made up of icy particles, rocks and dust which orbit around the planet being captured by its gravitational pull, much like satellites and moons do. But every time a meteorite, even as small as a pebble, hits the ring, it disturbs the dusty pieces of the ring matter and adds electric charge to them. The same is also caused by a geomagnetic storm generated by the Sun. The charged ring matter gets attracted by Saturn's electromagnetic fields, gets pulled in and the planet vaporizes the particles in its cloudy atmosphere. This is called ring rain, astronomers who talked to The Atlantic revealed.

Many scientists from space agencies all over the world like NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan’s space agency) believe that this ring rain will cause Saturn to lose the ring matter till nothing is left anymore. However, there is no need to worry about it happening in our lifetimes - it is not. Because, according to the predictions, Saturn will not be ring-less