Comments on: Saturn Spectacular: A Moon With Fizzy Oceans, Ring Tsunamis, and More http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/07/saturn-spectacular-a-moon-with-fizzy-oceans-ring-tsunamis-and-more/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:26:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jana Kamal http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/07/saturn-spectacular-a-moon-with-fizzy-oceans-ring-tsunamis-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-335617 Jana Kamal Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:28:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21110#comment-335617 I'm no scientist, but here's my '2 cents' for Saturn's ring formation: Much in the same way Enceladus has plumes of ice & vapor coming from it, could it be possible that when Saturn was a very young planet, there were huge underground oceans and from these oceans there were MASSIVE [and I mean MASSIVE] plumes of ice & vapor coming from the surface of a young Saturn? So massive that they reached into space and the ice & vapor were caught in the rotation of the planet...therfore forming the rings? I’m no scientist, but here’s my ’2 cents’ for Saturn’s ring formation:

Much in the same way Enceladus has plumes of ice & vapor coming from it, could it be possible that when Saturn was a very young planet, there were huge underground oceans and from these oceans there were MASSIVE [and I mean MASSIVE] plumes of ice & vapor coming from the surface of a young Saturn? So massive that they reached into space and the ice & vapor were caught in the rotation of the planet…therfore forming the rings?

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