Nearly all the things could be nonetheless. The bigger items of the ring beneath would orbit Saturn on the identical velocity as you, so they might not appear like they’re transferring. Finer bits of ice would appear to randomly drift at about the identical velocity that an ant crawls. In case your eyes are adequate to see multiple kilometer (0.6 miles) away, you would possibly spot bits of ice drifting at about strolling velocity within the distance.
Weirdly, Saturn would seem to rotate in the wrong way as these chunks. Inside minutes, a few of its clouds would shift noticeably earlier than your eyes.
Waves, mountains, and moonlets
Think about you start to fly away from Saturn, towards the extra distant rings. Beneath you, the sector of ice would often rise upward, thickening by an element of a number of right into a broad plateau striped with slim gaps. Different occasions, you’d fly over slim bands (known as ringlets) with nearly nothing round them.
Sooner or later, the ice would start to lighten from the colour of moist pavement to that of snow in shade. The sparse discipline of the ring you had been simply in, known as the C ring, would give option to ripples of ice, every tens of meters huge and some meters tall. As you watched, these ripples would shift barely beneath you, fading and reforming like waves on the floor of the ocean. That is the B ring.
