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What do the rings look like from an observer on the planet? Are they visible, or too "edge on" to see? Or maybe the sky is too bright?
 
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Technically, you could not stand on Saturn because of it's composition. You would fall until you were crushed by the gravity. You'd probably burn up too.
 
I didn't say I was "standing" anywhere.
 
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unusually_wrong said:
Technically, you could not stand on Saturn because of it's composition. You would fall until you were crushed by the gravity. You'd probably burn up too.
Well, that's an uplifting thought for a Friday! o0)

With a quick Google Images search, I found this:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea... spacecraft -dives-saturn-rings-google-doodle
The Cassini spacecraft ’s dive in between Saturn’s rings, explained
Artist's rendering of Saturn's rings seen from above the cloud tops, with a bright spacecraft or meteor streak crossing the sky near the ring plane.
 
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Yeah, but it's Vox. If the Voxplainers told me my mother loved me, I would want to check it out.
 
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gmax137 said:
I didn't say I was "standing" anywhere.

no, not "standing"

but you said …
gmax137 said:
What do the rings look like from an observer on the planet?

which implied the same thing :wink:

you would have to be in orbit around Saturn ( an orbit inside that of the ring system)
and the view you would get would depend on your latitude

there are images on the www ……. let's look ……

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/160/beyond-curved-rings/?category=planets_saturn

Black-and-white view of Saturn's rings curving across the frame, with a small moon visible in the dark space below the rings.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/164/light-and-dark-tricks/?category=planets_saturnhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/180/obscured-by-rings/?category=planets_saturnDave
 
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davenn said:
no, not "standing"

but you said …which implied the same thing :wink:

you would have to be in orbit around Saturn ( an orbit inside that of the ring system)
and the view you would get would depend on your latitude

there are images on the www ……. let's look ……

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/160/beyond-curved-rings/?category=planets_saturn

View attachment 228527https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/164/light-and-dark-tricks/?category=planets_saturnhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/180/obscured-by-rings/?category=planets_saturnDave
Wow, beauty. Thanks Dave. [emoji1]
 
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