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Why do the rings on Saturn look so perfect ie have perfect looking gaps
around them.
How does this actually happen or work?????????

Gravitational resonance with Saturn's other moons is one of the
primary factors. So something breaks up in Saturn's orbit. For
millions of years you have just a nebulous debris ring. Over time,
debris is tugged on by Saturn's moons, which orbit it in regular
intervals. Over time, the debris particles reach equilibrium orbits
due to this tugging as well as impacts with other debris.

Yes. Exactly.

To do all that you need energy.

You have to position exactly your moons at the right places.

Then, they have to shepherd the new material into the rings.

There is a dark material circulating across the whole
system, in the surface of the first satellite the machine
passed by, and in the rings too. Titan has an extended
atmosphere that could be the source of the injected material.

This material is injected into the rings by the moons

How come that they are at the right place?

The deeper you look, the deeper the explanations look strange.

Saturn. We know nothing yet...


The rings are a result of millions of years this gravitational
tugging, turning chaos slowly into order (giving up potential energy
in the process (i.e. going into lower orbits and sapping some of the
kinetic energy of Saturn's moons), so as not to violate the laws of
thermodynamics).

I know of another proces that can turn chaos into order.

Those patterns in the rings... Fascinating isn't it?

They look like bar-codes.