Did Mars Have Rings Long Ago?

[sherlew99]

NASA JPL



News | March 20, 2017

Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day



As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics -- Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one of our closest neighbors also had rings at one point and may have them again someday.

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[pickinduck]

Doesn't Uranus and or Neptune have rings?

[pickinduck]

What would that moon breaking up mean for Mars visitations and colonization?

[sherlew99]

Mar 22, 2017 7:14:46 GMT -6 pickinduck said:

Doesn't Uranus and or Neptune have rings?

Yes, both Uranus and Neptune have rings.

[sherlew99]

Mar 22, 2017 7:19:06 GMT -6 pickinduck said:

What would that moon breaking up mean for Mars visitations and colonization?

Well, I find it most likely that anyone on Mars may have debris raining down on them and of course they'll have to dodge the debris in orbit. Now that we know of the possibility, though, we can prepare contingency plans. It may be a very long time before either one of the moons break up.