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Clean Surfaces of Saturn Ring Particles
[OAB 77] It is claimed that the fresh-looking surfaces of particles in Saturn's rings demonstrate a young age. This may be due to the dislodging of older material from the particle surfaces by the constant jostling and colliding in Saturn's densely-populated ring system. Or this may be another indication that Saturn's rings are in fact much younger than Saturn itself, having been created by relatively recent destruction of an icy body by Saturn (see Instability of Saturn's Rings). In either case, this observation has no implications for the age of the Solar System.

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