Through his 17th-century telescope, they looked more like ears or planetary lobes of some kind. source: The Vanishing rings of saturn edit on 22-6-2012 by Moneyisgodlifeisrented because: (no reason given) The wild thing is, that most of the rings contents are water ice, dust and other chemicals... but mostly water ice. ( THEY NEED WATER! ) I have not much understanding as to what these could be, ar