Saturn Judith Trillo Alyssa Waugh - PowerPoint Presentation

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Saturn

Judith TrilloAlyssa WaughChaz IsaacksSlide2

Saturn Discovery

Saturn improved and changed a lot when the advent of space light that we really began to gain a greater understanding of this enigmatic world.Saturn is readily visible to the naked eye and has been known for millennia as slowest-moving “wandering star”.

However as soon as the telescope was invented and used for astronomy it became obvious that

saturn was a world unlike any other. Slide3

Saturn's Bands & Rings

The rings are made of billion of dust and ice particles. Most of the rings debris probably came from comets or other bodies. Saturn is know for its rings, which are two times the planets diameters. While the other gas giant also have rings, Saturn has the most complex and extensive system of ring.

Saturn's rings may be the most impressive all 4 gas giant have ring system that are made of dust and icy debris.Slide4

Saturn's Is A Outer Planet

The four farthest from the sun are called outer planets. They are separated from the inner planets by a ring of debris called the asteroids belt. Slide5

Saturn's Gas Giant

Although the gas giant are much larger and more massive than the terrestrial planets, the planets the gas are much less dense than the terrestrial planets.

The gas giants did not lose their original gases during their formation. Large masses give them a huge amount of gravity, which helps them retain the gasses. Slide6

Saturn's color

With shimmering pinks, hues of gray and a hint of brown, a newly released image of Saturn's rings resembles a fresco where nature is the painter.Slide7

Saturn's Moons

Titan

Iapetus

MimasEnceladus

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Titan

is so large that it affects the orbits of other near-by moons. At 5,150 km (3,200 miles) across, it is the second largest moon in the solar system. Titan hides its surface with a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan's atmosphere is similar to the Earth's.Slide9

Lapetus

has one side as bright as snow and one side as dark as black velvet, with a huge ridge running around most of its dark-side equator.Slide10

Mimas

has an enormous crater on one side, the result of an impact that nearly split the moon apart. Slide11

Enceladus

displays evidence of active ice volcanism: Cassini observed warm fractures where evaporating ice evidently escapes and forms a huge cloud of water vapor over the south pole. Slide12

Phoebe

orbits the planet in a direction opposite that of Saturn's larger moons, as do several of the more recently discovered moons.Slide13

Fun Facts

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. It is best known for its fabulous ring system

Saturn is the flattest planetSaturn is made mostly of

hydrogenSaturn has 150 moons and smaller moonletsSlide14

Life in Saturn

Saturn's atmospheric environment is one of strong gravity, high pressure, strong winds, from 225 miles per hour to 1000 miles.

cold temperatures of -270 degrees to +80 degrees. With winds like these, it is hard to have peace and quiet.

The region where it is 80 degrees sounds pretty friendly, but where the temperature is 80 degrees, the pressure is about the same as it would be if you were a couple miles below the sea on Earth!

Overall, this environment sounds very unfriendly to life as we know it on earth.Slide15
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