If you were to fly in a spaceship through Saturn's rings, what are the chances you would hit something?

Question

Didn't one of our space probes do just that?

Answer 1

better make sure your collision insurance has a low deductible, lol

Answer 2

Geez unka loose, rings are pretty small. i would say that you would hit saturn's finger for sure.

Answer 3

One of our deep space craft has done it. The real trick is to inter the ring traveling the same direction that the ring is traveling.

Answer 4

Pretty close to 100% depending on the size of the spaceship. Of course the larger the size, the better chance of hitting the particles that make up the rings. It also depends on which rings you're flying through.

Answer 5

about 100%. the debris that forms the rings is pretty dense.

Answer 6

There are gaps in the rings (one famously called the Pioneer gap after the spacecraft that flew through it and survived). So if you go through a gap, the odds are good that you'll be okay. In the center of a typical ring, it's about a mile thick. You're more than likely to hit something, but ring particles are probably from the size of a grain of salt up to a house. If you impact something the size of a snowball, any damage will depend on how fast you're going at the time.

Answer 7

If you look at close-ups of Saturn's rings they are pretty dense and a lot of small particles.  It would be like driving through a bad hailstorm and trying not to get hit.  

The link below has some picks.

Answer 8

Quite high, the rings are made of small rocks and ice.

"The rings of Saturn consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from microns to meters, that form clumps that in turn orbit about Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with some contamination from dust and other chemicals."

At the high speeds used in space flight, a wall of rocks would turn your space ship into Swiss cheese. Consider that you'd be hitting them at at least 5 km / s.