NASA has released a composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing views of the planet Saturn taken each year since 1996, revealing the full tilting of the planet's dusty water-ice ring plane. The image includes the 10m (33ft)-thick ring system viewed from almost edge-on to its extreme full tilt. Scientists believe that the rings were formed by the disintegration of a solar system object which approached too close to Saturn's gravitational forces, rather than the remains of an original member of Saturn's family of moons.
Source: Flight International
