G ring

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In Saturn: The ring system
…farther out is the tenuous G ring, with an optical depth of only 0.000001; lying at about 2.8 Saturn radii, it was originally detected by its influence on charged particles in Saturn’s magnetosphere, and it is faintly discernible in Voyager images. Cassini images taken in 2008 revealed the presence in…
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