... together. The rings are visible from Earth and they start from the top of Saturn's atmosphere to well beyond the orbits of its closest moons, about a distance of 84,650 miles (136,200 km) from the center of Saturn. The rings are very thin measuring no more than a few kilometers (about a mile) in thickness. The Pioneer 11 flyby made several discoveries ... moons, one on each side of the F-ring, may act as "shepherds," their gravitational attraction keeping the ring particles on track between the orbits of the moons. The two prominent rings A and B and one faint ring C can be seen from Ea...

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