those rings. How amazing is it that we JUST SO HAPPEN to exist in the teeny tiny time frame that they even exist? To us pitiful humans, the rings of Saturn are eternal. But in reality they are but a blink in the existence of the planet itself.

Cassini reports they are between 10 - 100 million yrs old and will be gone in another 300 million yrs. So lets average that out at 350 million years lifespan.

Saturn is 4.6 billion years old. We just happen to be around for the show.

Looking at this, don’t you feel a little pang in the heart at the thought that the Cassini mission ran its’ course, that we no longer are a presence within the Saturn system.

They need to sell some posters or playing cards

The coolest of planets!

omg the squish is so much more pronounced, this is so cool!