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Tucson, Arizona--Saturn's rings are slowly losing their lifeblood, and the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the trail: water in Saturn's stratosphere, just where icy particles should be falling from the rings. The erosion implies that the rings are a short-lived marvel.