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NASA Scientist report, by March 2025 Saturn’s rings are going to be completely invisible. Saturn’s rings to atmospheric phenomena. Why are Saturn’s rings disappearing in 2025? | Why Saturn have to lose its rings?

Why are Saturn’s rings disappearing in 2025?

Saturn’s rings are disappearing. Yes, according to a NASA report, by March 2025, we will see something like this. NASA has confirmed by saying that Saturn’s rings are going to be completely invisible to us Earthlings. This basically means, those rings which have been recognizing Saturn for millions of years, who used it like a cheat code and could recognize Saturn properly even as a nursery child out of all the other planets, those rings are now going to disappear.

Is there something happening there that shouldn’t be happening? Well, NASA thinks that yes, there is a possibility. Because, coincidentally, or at the root of this problem, Saturn’s two moons Enceladus and Titan can be there. And NASA believes that life can exist on them.

Is anyone responsible for this bad situation of Saturn?

Well, this thought is not going to be covered by NASA. We will keep this thought in a parking lot for some time. And let’s take a look at something very interesting.

They were taken in different years. You can see that in the first image, some faint holes are visible on Saturn’s rings. And then, after about 25 years, in this 2004 image, those holes are somehow disappearing. And then, suddenly, after the next five years, in 2009, those holes appeared again.

Meaning, something fishy is happening with Saturn’s rings. Actually, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Dr. James O’Donoghue recently revealed in 2018 that, yes, NASA’s teams knew from the beginning that Saturn’s rings were disappearing. However since Voyager 1 and 2 missions had continuously studied for three decades, the estimated deadline for that event was announced after about 300 million years.

That’s why NASA never made any progress on this. But after this, due to growing fascination, NASA planned a new dedicated mission to study Jupiter and Saturn separately, called Cassini. And lift off of the Cassini spacecraft on a billion-mile trek to Saturn. And it was this mission that raised a major alarm about Saturn’s rings.

Data from the Cassini mission said that the holes in Saturn’s rings are caused by a unique destructive phenomenon that will not disappear in the next 300 million years, but three times faster, in the next 100 million years, will swallow all the rings of Saturn.

Why NASA saying Saturn’s rings are going to disappear in 2025?

Well, you’ll understand the whole story in a while. But before that, in 2004, when Cassini was launched, and after some time, when it reached Saturn, NASA saw that Saturn’s rings were made of mainly water and ice. You might already know this. But then, they discovered that the ring made of that icy water, was rapidly pouring down on Saturn in the form of rain.

According to NASA, this rain is so fast, that in every small area of Saturn, in just half an hour, an Olympic-sized swimming pool is literally filling up. But, unlike Earth, there is no water cycle system here. It is not happening here that there is an ocean on Saturn, which is pouring down on it again, like a water cycle on Earth.

Here, its rings are melting, and it is being poured down and flooded. And unfortunately, there is no going back after that.

Is Saturn is a reason behind melting of ice?

The reason behind this is also very interesting. We were discussing how Saturn’s hand is behind the melting of Saturn’s rings. Let’s assume that he wants to get rid of this random gift. Look, the thing is, the UV light coming from the Sun, when it falls on the ice cubes in the rings of Saturn, then the H2O, or water molecules in the rings of Saturn, use that energy to convert themselves into hydronium ions by applying an extra hydrogen ion.

Now, normally, these small hydronium ions could be dispersed anywhere in outer space. But, as you might know, electric charge and magnetism are two spectrums of the same electromagnetic wave. So, that’s why these charged hydronium ions start attracting towards Saturn’s massive magnetic field. And with that, by throwing H plus ions out, they start pouring water on Saturn.

And now, what’s more, a detailed study says that whatever is happening on Saturn, is a never-ending phenomenon. And that’s why, because of this, with every passing second, all parts of the rings of Saturn are disappearing one by one.

Why the holes of Saturn appear and Disappear Again & Again?

Well, as soon as NASA’s latest Saturn explorer, Cassini, was studying Saturn’s rings, then NASA scientists noticed an important pattern in the holes on those rings. They saw that these weird patterns are more visible when both day and night on Saturn is exactly the same. That is, during its equinox.

When its equator and its rings are exactly aligned with the Sun. Now, for context, in the case of Earth, this happens only twice a year. On 21st March and on 23rd September. But, because of Saturn’s huge orbit, this equinox happens once every 15 Earth years. And, instead of a day, it goes on for months. Now, from all this, a question came to your mind.

If during the equinox, Saturn’s equator and its rings align with the Sun, and therefore, direct sunlight is applied only on its outer ring.

Why are holes being made in the rings inside Saturn by melting the ice?

Definitely, there is something else happening in Saturn’s rings, which we may not be able to decode yet. But, well, some independent physicists believe that this is happening because during the equinox, the ions floating in Saturn’s ring instead of mixing in the flat ring, start forming spikes that form standing structures by collecting themselves. Leaving holes underneath them. Actually, according to these physicists, when the heat of the Sun doesn’t reach the inner rings of Saturn, then those rings start getting cold.

And hence, the magnetic properties of some things present in those rings increase. Now, for those who maybe don’t know, this is not a unique phenomenon at all. This normally happens with every magnetic thing. Because, in anything, atoms normally vibrate in different directions. Because of this, the magnetic field of those atoms also aligns in the opposite direction and cancels each other out.

But when the heat of that thing starts decreasing, then their atoms stop vibrating gradually. And therefore, net magnetism increases. Meaning, all in all, if those physicists are right, then perhaps, the things present in those holes have not completely fallen on Saturn.

Rather, they are aligned with Saturn’s strong magnetic field and some parts of Saturn’s ring are floating up and down in the form of spikes. But, if this is the case, then why is NASA saying that these rings will completely disappear in 2025? Till now, as you saw, no calculation has proven that these rings will be destroyed so quickly. And worse, some say 300 million years, some say 100 million years.

Some even say that the things present in the rings are exactly the same. They are just hidden above and below the rings. So, what is the truth here and what is the lie? Well, with this confusion, we took a step back and once again approached this whole news of 2025 with a fresh mind. And we came to know that Saturn’s rings will disappear in 2025, but only for the earthlings.

Actually, when we saw that NASA specifically, was saying March 2025, then naturally, we thought, let’s do one thing, in that particular month, in which phase will Saturn and how will it look from the earth? Let’s find out. And, as soon as we saw this, everything was crystal clear. Actually, in March 2025, Saturn’s equator with the sun and the Earth is going to be completely perpendicularly aligned.

This means that from the Earth, Saturn’s rings will look something like this. As if we are looking at a paper from its side. And now, just consider, if you look at a paper from its side, and that too, from a distance, then what will you see? Absolutely nothing. That paper will sort of for you, optically, disappear.

And the same is happening with Saturn’s rings. Because Saturn is so far from us that before a person reaches there, the other person will touch the moon 18 times and return. Due to this same phenomenon, NASA said that in March 2025 will stop seeing Saturn’s rings from the Earth for some time. But still, let’s not forget, in 100 million years, these rings will be completely destroyed. And they will really disappear.

Alien life possible on two moons of Saturn?

So, look, recently, NASA scientists have been trying to find some on the two moons of Saturn, Enceladus, and Titan, which can create similar cell membranes and start a unique life there.

Look, 3 to 4 billion years ago, the same thing happened on the earth In those days, first of all, some molecules called coassivate were formed. And then those molecules created initial life structures like cell membranes, after which complex diverse life was born. Look, a cell can’t be made without because cell membranes are the walls of cells that keep the elements inside intact so that there can be a reaction inside and a stable environment to form life.

Now, in the case of the moons of Saturn, scientists have found some compounds called acrylonitrile made of carbon NASA says that these compounds can coasservate and form cell membranes together. Besides, unlike coasservates, which need water for this process as a solvent, acrylonitrile needs methane and ethane as a solvent and these literally flow on the moons of Saturn.

So, all in all, Saturn is a very favorable system to sustain an acrylonitrile-based cell system. That means as I said earlier, not currently, but in the future, a new type of acrylonitrile will be developed to potentially evolve The ground seems ready, but we just need enough time and the scientists’ theory to be For now, we can only wait because NASA is going to do new Dragonfly mission by 2027.

For which I am personally very excited. And it is going to happen that after this mission, to find out more secrets of Titan, just like in the case of Pluto. Until NASA sent a mission to Pluto, we only had a blurred image and its characteristics were a blurred concept. But when NASA sent the New Horizon spacecraft to study it in detail, it revealed many secrets of Pluto. With this mission, they found out that Pluto is actually the hidden time capsule of our planet.

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