Has Saturn Had More than One Ring System?

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Thanks to The Great Courses Plus for supporting today’s video. Start your FREE trial here: http://ow.ly/ryzE30nzMJ9 Saturn’s rings might only be around a hundred million years old, billions of years younger than some astronomers have suspected, and they might not be the only rings the planet has ever had. Hosted by: Hank Green The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US, UK and Australian market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/794/nasa-research-reveals-saturn-is-losing-its-rings-at-worst-case-scenario-rate/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/groundbreaking-science-emerges-from-ultra-close-orbits-of-saturn http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6410/eaat2382 https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/saturns-rings-might-be-shredded-moons https://www.universetoday.com/19288/uranus-rings/ http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6410/eaat2236 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6410/eaat3185 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518302999?via%3Dihub https://www.nature.com/news/2010/101005/full/news.2010.515.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/13021/put-a-ring-on-it/ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_eclipse.jpg https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12567 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1464 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subaru,_Keck_and_IRTF.jpg https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17849/translucent-arcs/?category=planets_saturn https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12672 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:8423_20181_1saturn2016.jpg https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01997 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02963 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA22766.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_-_December_3_2005_(38019132542).png https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/605/keck-telescope-views-of-uranus/?category=planets_uranus https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17848/group-portrait/?category=planets_saturn https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ringworld_Waiting.jpg https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02873 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03550 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Infrared_Ring_Around_Saturn.jpg Thumbnail: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/in-depth/


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