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Strange icicles on the edges of Saturns rings. I thought that they were made up of trillions of particles.

What are these massive icicles doing on the edges of Saturn`s rings? I thought that the rings were made up of trillions of lumps of ice. I guess the edge of the rings is a solid ring. That would be very cool. I wonder if you could build a base on it. This adds to the strangeness of the Saturnian system. The possibility of the solid ring around Saturn means that you could live on there. Building a habitation ring around the whole planet. That would offer space for countless humans. I do not know if you would actually want to live there, but if it was possible, then we should try and do it. But how can giant icicles form when space that far out is far too cold and liquid water would sublimate into vapour . The strangeness of this is quite evident, we believed that the rings were just dust and ice particles, and now we see a solid seeming ring around the edge.

Strange icicle formations on the rings of Saturn. These must be massive.
Strange icicle formations on the rings of Saturn. These must be massive. imagine colonizing this area and living here…

Space does have some amazing sights, but this takes the cake. Only matched by the monolith on Iapetus. This is a 20 KM tall ridge around the circumference of the moon. This is a very strange feature. But the moon could have been spinning very fast in its early life and the gravity of Saturn slowed it down and this caused the ridge to form. But this is still a mystery and will not be solved for a long time yet. Just like the formation of the Earth`s moon. But the massive impact theory could explain this. A new theory was proposed by J. P. Andrews & J. O. Dickey in the 1950s. They said that the moon has a thin crust of hard minerals. They came up with a theory that the moon was formed when the Earth collided with another large object which was about 50 KM across. This collision released a great deal of energy, which compressed and heated up the moon which then turned into a liquid. This liquid then solidified into a rock. In the 1950s, scientists proposed a theory which I have been interested in all my life called the Moon Densification Theory, which says that the moon formed from a giant snowball and it was heated up by radioactive elements. But this theory cannot be confirmed and we just have to have faith in what they said.

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