Saturn’s moon Prometheus colliding with Saturn’s diffuse F ring
Saturn’s moon Prometheus colliding with Saturn’s diffuse F ring
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
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Converted the gif from a video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JdzjXlvBYE) that I found from the fantastic Wiki page on [Saturn’s rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn). Here’s a dank [fancy photo of the collision](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/PIA12684_F_Ring.png)
Wow! I wonder how long that dent in the ring would take to reform after this.
It looks like the moon would have kept going if it didn’t hit the ring, did hitting the ring actually cause it to bounce down like that or does the moon’s orbit just happen to barely touch it like that?