Question

The sixth planet of the solar system is the huge planet Saturn. The beautiful, coloured rings of Saturn are mainly made of:
A. Millions of rocks and chunks of ice
B. Greenish clouds of chlorine and sulphur dust
C. Red dust particles in the air
D. Reflections of light from tiny mirrors of silver compounds.

Answer 1

Hint: The rings are made up of moon dust and rocks. The planet Saturn is very far from the sun so it is very cold also. Saturn has seven rings. The rings of the planet Saturn are very colourful. The different colours in the ring of Saturn reflects different amounts of contaminants present in the Saturn ring.

Complete Step by step answer:
The beautiful coloured rings of Saturn are mainly made of millions of rocks and chunks of ice.
Since the sun is very far from the planet Saturn, Saturn is a very cold planet and hence there is presence of ice. The rings are made up of this ice too. As the rings are made of ice of pure water which is white in colour the rings also appear white.
The rings of Saturn are also made up of rocks and dust which got accumulated by passing meteorites, comets etc.
Various colours are visible in the rings of planet Saturn, they are pink, grey, white and brown.
Lets see some points about the other options given in the question respectively:
Chlorine is generally green in colour and used as a chemical in industries.
Lacrymans sporophytes produce red spores which on getting accumulated causes red dust. Lacrymans is a type of fungi.
And the last option about mirrors is totally irrelevant here.
So, the correct answer is option, ‘A. Millions of rocks and chunks of ice’.

Note: Don’t get distracted by the term dust in option (C) stating about red dust in the air. Red dust is caused by a type of fungi which produces red colour spores.
Main thing to keep in mind is that the planet Saturn is very cold so the rings will surely be containing ice and will also be white in colour because of ice.