Space probe records objects piercing Saturn's rings

According to NASA, the Cassini space probe, on an exploratory mission around Saturn since 2004, has recorded some startling images of objects traversing the planet's rings. More precisely, the ring that appears in the images is the F - the outermost of them all - which has a circumference of almost 900, 000 kilometers.

The objects that appear in the images are ice spheres with lengths between 40 and 180 km, which cross the rings at a speed of approximately 2 meters per second. Passing through the rings, objects drag particles present in them, creating the traces that can be observed in the photographs captured by the space probe.

This phenomenon seems to be quite common, and NASA believes the spheres are produced by the 40-kilometer wide Prometheus moon orbiting the shores of the F ring. Apparently, the gravity of the small moon causes ice particles to cluster together, forming the huge spheres registered by Cassini.