Among Saturn’s shimmering ice belts, the planet’s G ring has proved the most puzzling. The very location of this faint, narrow ring, well beyond the planet’s main ring system, has been a riddle ever since the two Voyager spacecraft spied it in 1980. The G ring lies more than 15,000 kilometers from any Saturnian moon.
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