Saturn
Saturn is one of the most interesting planets in the solar system. It is the sixth planet in the solar system, and is most famous for its stunning array of rings. It is a very easy planet to pick out in the sky because it is one of the brightest lights in the shy. It also has a very faint greenish color that makes it stand out from the rest of the objects in the sky (“Astronomy for Kids”). Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter being the only planet that is bigger. It also has at least eighteen moons, more than any other planet in the solar system. There have been three voyages to this extraordinary planet, and one is still in process today. The Pioneer II traveled to Saturn in September of 1979,
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Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is the only planet that is larger. The gas giant is 72 thousand miles in diameter, almost ten times the size of Earth. In spite of its huge size, though, Saturn weighs very little. It is a very light gas planet. Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system-- so light, in fact, that it would float in water. This planet is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter, but it is much less dense. The combination of its light weight and fast rotation causes Saturn to spread out, or oblate, its center. Since Saturn is a gas planet, it does not have a solid surface. Spacecraft are unable to land on this type of surface. The clouds that are seen when looking at Saturn are just the top layer of a very deep layer that covers a center of liquid hydrogen. The clouds are blown by constant winds that reach speeds up to one thousand miles per hour at the equator of the planet (“Great Space Place”).
The rings of Saturn are more spectacular than those of any other planet. Although this planet’s rings are very wide, extending from the top of its atmosphere to well beyond the orbits of its closest moons, they are very thin, measuring no more than a few kilometers (about a mile) in thickness (“Great Space Place”). The Pioneer 11 flyby made several discoveries about the rings. The rings are made of
Many scientists predict that for many years from now, most of Saturn's moon will be sucked in and be part of its ring. At one point in time there will be no moons for Saturn since they have just evaporated.. If this keeps happening, the moons of Saturn will disappear and turn into the planets ring. Let us move on to the next page of information about the different planets rings and how they got
and is not fully understood. One of Saturn’s moon is Titan .Made up of a rock like core
On earth the average temperature is 15 degrees celsius on Saturn the average is minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius). This shows that their temperatures are vastly different, and on Saturn there are some very big temperature changes. Another way these planets are different is the length of a year. As most people know a year on earth is 365.25 days because of its distance from the sun. Since Saturn is the 6th planet away from the sun it much more father which makes the the revolution around it much longer.
These same atoms also created aliens on the planet Saturn. This paper will define Saturn's temperature, light, the distance from earth, and how the alien manage to live on the planet. Due to Earth’s proximity to the sun, the temperature varies widely from the pole to the equator, but in Saturn’s case it’s different because the sun appears in the sky as a bright star. Saturn has one of the coldest temperatures of the planets in the solar system. It has an average
Enceledus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn which discovered by William Herdchel in 1789. Three spacecrafts contributed the main discovery of the Enceledus. Voyager I spacecraft found that Enceledus has a high albedo and is orbiting inside the E ring of the Saturn at the highest density point whereas Voyager II spacecraft observed that there are at least 5 type of terrain on the surface such as crater terrain, young terrain and so on. Cassina spacecraft discovered water-rich plumes venting from the south polar region which approved that the Enceledus is the source of the E ring and is able to create life. In addition the environment on Enceledus is perfect fits in all the chemical requirements for life existence.
Our lab assignment this week was to research the Cassini/Huygens mission currently being conducted by NASA and the European Space Agency. After learning about the mission, we need to list some of the information it has provided us. As well as discuss what we have learned about Saturn, its rings and the moon system. Choose at least one picture and explain it. Although, Saturn has always been my favorite planet, I didn’t know much about this mission. The lab proved fun and interesting to learn about all the many discoveries of Saturn.
Saturn is unique of all the planets, adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets and has 63 moons with confirmed orbits. Fifty-three of the moons have been named, with Titan being the largest and the only one with an atmosphere. Saturn is mostly a massive ball of hydrogen and helium, much like the planet Jupiter.
In December, a thunderstorm, known as the Great White Spot, erupted on Saturn. It measured about 6,200 miles wide, and it is still going strong. As a result, some of its clouds have wrapped all the way around the ringed planet. Similarly to thunderstorms on Earth, the Great White Spot generates lots of lightning. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is covered with clouds which are made of methane. Since methane has a much lower melting point than water
W.G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn explores the relationship between toleration and persecution through a first person narrative. The novel is preoccupied with loss and the ways we have tried to come to terms with mortality. It is a meditation on the destructive nature of history, the human lives affected, and the restorative power of art. However, his work is not simply a record of these human-induced catastrophes, but also attempts to fashion new representational tools for the purpose of acknowledging and coming to terms with the realities of modern human history. Sebald’s critcism tends to focus on the biographical and psychological backgrounds of the writers he mentions. He draws heavily on the canon of twentieth-century Marxist thought, including works from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. His complex thesis draws specifically on their work The Dialectic of Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that spread through Europe during the eighteenth century, which involved a radical change in the way that philosophers and others understood the role of reason. It valued independent thought and promoted reason to a higher status and for some came to replace faith. Intrinsic in Sebald’s work is the idea that the Enlightenment project was programmed by violent distrusts of the non-identical and a coercive desire to eliminate otherness. Specifically, Sebald draws on Horkheimer and Adorno’s critique of civilization articulated in The Dialectic of the
Saturn has an average radius of nine times that of Earth, it is the second largest planet after Jupiter and sixth from the sun.
Galileo spacecraft first discovered the four largest moon of Jupiter, called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Ganymede and Callisto. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System Atmosphere And Planetary Composition: Temperature Range: The cloud-tops average 120 K=153*C=-244*F. Atmosphere: Jupiter is a gaseous planet; it does not have a solid surface like the Earth does (but probably has a solid, rocky core 10 to 15 times the mass of the Earth). When we look at Jupiter, we are seeing icy clouds of gases moving at high speeds in the atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium.
Saturn is one of the most well known and loved planets in the solar system known for its many features, including its incredible rings, beautiful color and much more. Saturn is a gas giant made up of mostly hydrogen and helium, similar to Jupiter another gas giant. Saturn is the sixth planet from our sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. It's the furthest planet from Earth that’s still visible to the unaided human eye. Saturn is an incredible and outstanding planet with a huge history and intricate details that make it such a spectacular and important part of our solar system.
In 1979, Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter’s ring system. Jupiter has three rings. Galileo spacecraft suggested that these rings are formed when meteoroids hit Jupiter’s tiny closest moons.
our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. In this paper I will discuss the planets and how they are each unique.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest mass object in the solar system of all the other planets. Jupiter is twice the size of all the other planets combined. It is as 318 times the sizes of earth. The distance that Jupiter orbits the sun is 778,330,000 km (Gallant pp154). The diameter is 142,984 km and the mass that it has is 1.900e27 kg. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Mars is some times brighter. Galileo discovered Jupiter in 1610(Gallant); another interesting fact is that Jupiter has 4 large moons. Which are known as the Galilean moons. They were named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The first mission that went to Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973 and later