European Space Agency: Saturn's rings are also major components of atmospheric oxygen.

Paris, August 18 <P> electricity, through the analysis of Saturn is in the United States over the "Cassini" spacecraft detection data, the European Space Agency scientists recently discovered that Saturn's rings have own atmosphere, its main ingredient is oxygen .. .</ P> <P> According to the French, "Science and the Future" magazine 18, scientists found that Saturn's atmosphere and the different atmosphere, which is mainly formed by oxygen molecules, and Jupiter's satellites, "Europa" and " .Ganymede, "the atmosphere is very similar. .</ P> <P> involved in the study of University College London Professor Andrew Coates said, Saturn's rings primarily made of water ice and the composition of interstellar dust and debris. .It is a very thin ribbon groups, only about 1.5 km thick, but the diameter of 25 kilometers. .Ultraviolet radiation in the sun, many frozen water molecules from the rings of material that comes out, and under the sun rays break down into gas, then distributed to the decomposition of hydrogen out of the universe, gradually gathered the remaining oxygen, forming .Saturn's rings its own unique atmosphere. .(End) </ P> </ p>.