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Old 20-May-2005, 10:25 AM
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My question : whether the saturn rings are transperant? or non transperant?

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Old 20-May-2005, 02:55 PM
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Saturn's ring system is composed of mostly ices that range in size from dust size to house sized. You can see through the rings, as they are not a solid object, but trillions of co-orbiting particles, but the individual particles themselves are probably opaque.
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