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Saturn's rings
Saturn's rings are mostly made of water ice particles ranging from tiny grains to chunks the size of houses. Despite spanning 175,000 miles across, the rings are astoundingly thin — <hl>only about 30 feet thick</hl> in most places.
SrcNASA JPL

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