April 14, 2013

Artist's concept illustrating how charged water particles flow into Saturn's atmosphere from the planet's rings (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Leicester)

In an article published on “Nature”, a team of scientists led by James O’Donoghue, University of Leicester, England, explains how a rain of charged particles from Saturn’s rings falls on the planet in much greater quantities and on a much wider area than previously thought.