https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-beauty-and-mystery-of-saturn-rsquo-s-rings-revealed-by-the-cassini-mission/ >The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. >What would Saturn be without its beautiful system of rings? Over the past 13 years, the Cassini space probe has shown us just how complex and dynamic the rings truly are.