What best explains the darkness of the rings beyond Saturn's?
A) Rocky debris doesn't reflect as well as water ice.
B) The sunlight is much fainter out there.
C) Old, sooty debris and radiation darkening.
D) Water ice reflects light poorly at the low temperatures beyond Saturn.
E) They are pieces of captured comets.
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