00:00Saturn's iconic rings are disappearing, and they might be gone in just 100 million years.
00:06Surprisingly, these rings are made almost entirely of water ice, not solid rock, and they're incredibly thin.
00:14They're vanishing at an alarming rate.
00:16NASA calls it ring rain, billions of kilograms of material pouring into the planet each year.
00:23And here's the kicker. Saturn's rings are surprisingly young.
00:27They may have formed just 100 million years ago, around the time dinosaurs roamed Earth.
00:33This means the Saturn we see today, the one with its breathtaking rings, is a temporary spectacle in cosmic terms.
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