As a kid in the 1990s, I chose Saturn as my favorite planet because of its rings. They're so perfectly circular and solid-looking, like a disk you might see slicing through a sphere in a math textbook.
As a kid in the 1990s, I chose Saturn as my favorite planet because of its rings.
They're so perfectly circular and solid-looking, like a disk you might see slicing through a sphere in a math textbook.
How surreal it would be to be among them, clinging to a boulder, silently tumbling.
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As a kid in the 1990s, I chose Saturn as my favorite planet because of its rings. They're so perfectly circular and solid-looking, like a disk you might see slicing through a sphere in a math textbook. How surreal it would be to be among them, clinging to a boulder, silently tumbling.
Yet up close, they're sparse, a bunch of pebbles and rocks in free-fall. (I also respected my sister's choice of stripe-y, spotty Jupiter.)
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