Saturn’s rings do the wave (Fantastic Cassini pic)
Holy Haleakala!
The thing is, it’s not just another gorgeous picture. This image — from Cassini, of course — is truly remarkable.
The first thing you should know is that Saturn’s rings are incredibly flat. If you scaled them down to the size of a piece of paper, they’d actually be far thinner than a single sheet of that paper. In fact, even though they’re about 200,000 kilometers across, they are only at most a few dozen meters thick!
But not everywhere.