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Saturn's rings span a distance wider than many planets and are often only meters in thickness.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
What it means
The main rings span roughly two hundred and eighty thousand kilometers from edge to edge, and in most places they are perhaps ten meters deep. Scaled to a sheet of paper, they would be several kilometers across. They are made of countless pieces of water ice ranging from dust grains to boulders, each on its own orbit, and every so often Earth passes through their plane and they briefly vanish from view.
The claim comes from NASA, and the page it comes from was read on 2026-08-27 to confirm it still says this.
This is not the kind of claim that goes out of date, which is why it was set as a puzzle rather than a fact with a shelf life.
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This fact is a cryptogram here: 77 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultyhard
- Length77 letters, 20 of them different
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