The orbit(s) of Saturn’s rings

Countless shards of frozen water ice form Saturn’s rings, which range in size from microscopic icy dust to bus-sized ice bergs. Each piece has its own orbit: close to Saturn they orbit fast, far away they orbit slow. Major ring segments are A-to-F (labelled in order of discovery) Imagery from: NASA / Hubble / Cassini / SSI / JPL-Caltech / Solar System Scope processing under CC BY 4.0
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