Saturn is losing its rings much faster than scientist taught.

Nasa has revealed that Saturn rings will be gone 200 million years sooner than previously estimated.

New data from NASA's former Cassini spacecraft has revealed that rings will be gone 200 million years sooner. Now its raining 10000 Kilogram of the ring on Saturn per second.F ast enough to fill an Olympic sized fool in half an hour. The rain is actually disintegrated remains of Saturn's rings. Saturn rings are mostly made up of chunks of ice and rock. which are under constant bombardment by UV radiation by the sun and tiny meteoroids.

When these collisions take place, the icy particles vaporize, forming charged water molecules that interact with Saturn's magnetic field; ultimately, falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in the atmosphere.

Now we have known about ring rain since the 1980s when NASA's Voyager mission first noticed mysterious, dark bands that turned out to be ring rain caught in Saturn's magnetic fields. Back then, researchers estimated the rings would totally drain in 300 million years. But observations by NASA's former Cassini spacecraft give a darker prognosis. Before its death dive into Saturn 2017, Cassini managed to get a better look at the amount of ring dust raining on Saturns equator.

And discovered that it was raining heavier than previously thought. With these clearer observations, scientists calculated the rings had only 100 million years left to live. Now, it's tough to imagine a ringless Saturn.