The Rings of Saturn
Galileo noticed
these rings, although he couldn’t quite
see what they were. Since they are
thousands of miles across and only 20 meters thick,
they are much relatively thinner than
paper (and you can see through them. They are
composed of billions of tiny bodies, from
dust to boulder sized. We now think that
rings only last for millions of years, so we
are privileged to see them so nice. [Maybe 50
million years from now, Mars will be
better.]
