Astronomy / Space What real icy rings look like
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One thing FD is doing horribly wrong about rings - particle size. In game we have something like asteroids, while in reality it's more of a mass of small rocks that barely reach 1m in diameter. However, it's all in the name of gameplay and I totally accept it, and enjoy it. Not sure I'd be interested in flying in basically a cloud of dust and pebbles 
One thing FD is doing horribly wrong about rings - particle size. In game we have something like asteroids, while in reality it's more of a mass of small rocks that barely reach 1m in diameter. However, it's all in the name of gameplay and I totally accept it, and enjoy it. Not sure I'd be interested in flying in basically a cloud of dust and pebbles
Remember also that in the real universe if you went out to our own asteroid belt and parked near an asteroid chances are, you would not even be able to see another asteroid since in reality, they are pretty well spread out, extremely thinly placed and FD does not want us to spend days travelling between individual rocks.
This applies to an asteroid belt that divides our system. Rings around gas giants are pretty dense
One thing FD is doing horribly wrong about rings - particle size. In game we have something like asteroids, while in reality it's more of a mass of small rocks that barely reach 1m in diameter. However, it's all in the name of gameplay and I totally accept it, and enjoy it. Not sure I'd be interested in flying in basically a cloud of dust and pebbles
yeah, I was watching a video from Obsidian Ant about Infinity: Battlescape and it looked like the rings were mostly dust and small sized rocks with the occasional large boulder thrown in for flavor. I'm kind of on the ropes about it, though. I like the planetary rings how they are, but it would be really cool to be able to fly through a dust layer, as well as make amazing screen captures. It could also have made asteroid belt mining a thing as well.
Could some agency please crash a probe in there for some close-ups?
Repped for accuracy and the amazing Yotsuba avatar.
Truly stunning - space is such a neat and interesting place. Truly. Thanks for posting this.
Yes, marvels under our eyes. No doubt
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There was a recent report on the BBC news science section about the hope to find "Peggy" a moonlet responsible for some artefacts / features in Saturn's A ring before Cassini does a header in September:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38599645
