Saturn’s widest ring measured
The planet's belt stretches millions of kilometers into space
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RING OF FIRE Saturn’s largest and faintest ring, shown glowing with infrared light in an artist’s illustration, extends just over 16 million kilometers from the planet.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA, KECK